Feature Request: force add files for inspection

[bchretien]

It seems that landscape is looking for files with the .py extension. However, in some projects, the Python extension may be omitted when files are designed to be installed as programs in /usr/bin. Would it be possible to provide a way to add such files in .landscape.yaml?

[ssokolow]

While it's not ideal for all situations, as a workaround, you can use the setuptools console_scripts entry point in your setup.py instead.

That way, your code stays in .py files and setup.py generates launcher wrappers on install.

(It also has the added benefit of giving you some Windows convenience hacks for free.)

[carlio]

My own personal 'solution' is that the scripts for /usr/bin or wherever are very simple and only call a .run() or similar on a module. YMMV.

However it's probably a good idea to be a bit more flexible about what is included and excluded, currently a bunch of things are hardcoded. I've added a sub-issue for this on prospector, the underlying tool here: landscapeio/prospector#26

[ssokolow]

@carlio

That's what console_scripts does. You feed it something like json.tool:main and it auto-generates a short script to import json.tool and call the main function inside it.

...of course, as I mentioned, it comes with additional portability helpers like generating a .exe wrapper for windows so typing the extensionless name in cmd.exe works without editing PATHEXT.

[carlio]

@ssokolow Oh, ok, thanks for telling me. I have to confess, I haven't delved into the soup of setup/distutils too much so I am probably very out of date in my approach.

[carlio]

I'm on a ticket closing binge so I'll close this one because it is covered in landscapeio/prospector#69