Links

• See also: Environment
• Config Files
  • Locations, names, syntax, etc.
    • On all platforms, the “personal” file can be temporarily disabled by passing the –no-user-cfg option. (i.e. $HOME/.pydistutils.cfg on unixish machines.)
  • distutils.cfg syntax
• distutils module
  • Installing with distutils
    • Alternate Installation
    • The alternate installation schemes are mutually exclusive: you can pass --user, or --home, or --prefix and --exec-prefix, or --install-base and --install-platbase, but you can’t mix from these groups.
    • Custom Installation
    • Building Extensions: Tips and Tricks
  • Distributing Python Modules
    • Command Reference
    • API Reference
      • distutils.core — Core Distutils functionality

Bag

# Build and keep source tree clean
python setup.py build --build-base=/tmp/build-foo-1.0.0

# Create a source distribution package for installation elsewhere.
python setup.py sdist

# What types of binary distributions are supported?
python setup.py bdist --help-formats

# Build rpm.
python setup.py bdist_rpm
#
# Build windows .exe setup file.
python setup.py bdist_wininst