I'm having some challenges writing a utility that mainly stitches together other programs. In particular my main goals are:
- ease of installation. I want to be able to tell people to just sudo easy_install cdk
- My dependencies are not dependable: deck.js isn't a python package at all and asciidoc isn't setup to be installed.
- I don't want to have a source tree full of thousands of files I'm not authoring.
Complicating things is the difficulty of getting setuptools to include non-python data files in a known good location. Currently I am:
- including a couple of package data directories cdk/data and cdk/custom. I'm not checking cdk/data into source control, the contents can be recreated by running make getdata.
- I'm using the MANIFEST.in file to include all the contents of cdk/data and cdk/data in the sdist I'm building with python setup.py sdist.