License is installed to /usr

[0x9fff00]

Commit dadd5a4, suggested by #57, added LICENSE to data_files. It appears that this was intended to add the license to the source distribution, however it also causes it to be installed in /usr when python setup.py install is run. This is incorrect as /usr should only contain the subdirectories specified in the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard, and no files.

[viniciuschiele]

Thanks for pointing this out, would you know what is the correct way to include extra files like LICENSE, CHANGELOGS in the pypi package?

[guru-florida]

I am getting this as well. The "data_files" property is for files you want to put under the install prefix (/usr ex) like icons, desktop shortcuts, etc. For this LICENSE file and other files that should be installed in the package dir it should use "package_data" property and set the include_package_data=True flag.

Lots of related discussion here:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11235820/setup-py-not-installing-data-files

Example:

setup(
   name='myapp',
   packages=find_packages(),
   package_data={
      'myapp': ['data/*.txt'],
   },
   include_package_data=True,
   zip_safe=False,
   install_requires=['distribute'],
)

package_data is specifically for package releases, which I think is what we want here. More details:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7522250/how-to-include-package-data-with-setuptools-distutils

[viniciuschiele]

I released a new version 1.12.3, thank you all