Hi all!
As is about to become apparent, I really don't know what I'm doing
when it comes to using eggs.
I'm writing some software that is going to be deployed on a machine as
a number of eggs. Which is all well and good.
These eggs all end up depending on each other; modules in egg A want
to import modules in egg B etc.
It's not really practical to add the path to each individual egg to
the PYTHONPATH (although there's all in a directory that is in
PYTHONPATH).
Do I have to add boiler-plate code to the beginning of all the modules
with these dependencies to check if modules are available and require
the eggs if they aren't? Or is there a way I can have stuff 'just
work' as it does in the development environment when the modules
haven't been bundled up into eggs?
On a similar note, I can't seem to get the automatic script creation
stuff in setuptools to create scripts that have additional
requirements. I tried defining extra requires giving the names of
other eggs that will be required, and then specifying these as extras
to the console_scripts , but the generated scripts were no different.
Am I doing something wrong? Or am I just not understanding something?
I'm muddling through getting this all working at the moment, but I get
the distinct impression that there's a better (correct?) way that I'm
not aware of.
Sorry for such a vague posting.
-Oli
As is about to become apparent, I really don't know what I'm doing
when it comes to using eggs.
I'm writing some software that is going to be deployed on a machine as
a number of eggs. Which is all well and good.
These eggs all end up depending on each other; modules in egg A want
to import modules in egg B etc.
It's not really practical to add the path to each individual egg to
the PYTHONPATH (although there's all in a directory that is in
PYTHONPATH).
Do I have to add boiler-plate code to the beginning of all the modules
with these dependencies to check if modules are available and require
the eggs if they aren't? Or is there a way I can have stuff 'just
work' as it does in the development environment when the modules
haven't been bundled up into eggs?
On a similar note, I can't seem to get the automatic script creation
stuff in setuptools to create scripts that have additional
requirements. I tried defining extra requires giving the names of
other eggs that will be required, and then specifying these as extras
to the console_scripts , but the generated scripts were no different.
Am I doing something wrong? Or am I just not understanding something?
I'm muddling through getting this all working at the moment, but I get
the distinct impression that there's a better (correct?) way that I'm
not aware of.
Sorry for such a vague posting.
-Oli
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