Make pyinstaller installable with distutils/setuptools (installation from Pypi)

[htgoebel]

Original date: 2010/12/29

pyinstaller should get a setup.py to be installable using distutils/setuptools.

In conjunction with #232 ("pyinstaller.py") this would ease solving #32 (integration into distutils).

Solution outline

This could easily be done if the structure of the source is changed into something like this:

bin/Configure.py
bin/Build.py
pyinstaller/mf.py
pyinstaller/
support/iu.py
...

Additionally the scripts need to import from pyinstaller and access to the support files needs to be crafted correctly. All in all this should not be to much work.

When doing this, it would be a chance for some other refactoring, e.g. split option handling and main-part of scripts (see #300)

[htgoebel]

Original date: 2010/12/30

Since 1.5 is a release candidate already, this should go into 1.6 of course.

[matysek]

Original date: 2011/01/07

Perhaps you could try to cooperate on distutils integration on makespec_ng branch with the person working on it or create own branch for distutils integration.

[htgoebel]

Original date: 2011/10/24

From: http://www.pyinstaller.org/ticket/442#comment:1

Proposed fix: add 'support/*.dat' to data_files = find_data_files( ... ) in setup.py

[matysek]

Original date: 2013/02/27

For details see #40

[matysek]

Original date: 2013/03/10

The pull request was merged and it should be fixed.