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From: Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au>
Subject: Re: Setuptools Confusion
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 06:03:01 +1100
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Rob Gaddi <rgaddi@technologyhighland.invalid> writes:

> I'm having two issues trying to make setuptools do what I want to package 
> up an application.

Those questions are on-topic here. It's worth noting, though, that you
may get better discussion of this by asking in the Distutils forum
<URL:https://www.python.org/community/sigs/current/distutils-sig/>.

> I feel like both my questions come down to the same root; how do I hook 
> setuptools to do additional tasks at appropriate times?

In short, you need to extend the ‘distutils.command’ classes and specify
your custom classes as commands. The Distutils documentation describes
this <URL:https://docs.python.org/3/distutils/extending.html>.

Note, though, that this is an advanced topic and not to be undertaken
lightly; it isn't very well understood.

> Is it really as complicated as all this, or is there something trivial
> and stupid that I'm just missing?

It's more complicated than you thought :-(

The Python Packaging Authority <URL:https://www.pypa.io/> has greatly
improved the situation in recent years, with the Python Packaging User
Guide <URL:https://packaging.python.org/> among other works.

The bad news is that, though better than ten years ago, Python package
distribution is still surprisingly baroque and difficult to navigate.

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Ben Finney