Lack of setup.py in Etoys-101.tar.gz

[alsroot]

its not a huge problem but jhcovnert uses unified method to package all activities and so needs setup.py

[bert]

What does setup.py do? The only thing you need to do to install the Etoys activity is unpack the bundle in the right place.

I searched the Sugarlabs wiki but it only mentioned that setup.py is used for some tasks in Python activities. You should probably fix jhconvert to not rely on setup.py. If that's too hard, point me to a spec (preferably on a semi-official Sugarlabs site) and I'll see what I can do.

[alsroot]

Replying to bert:

What does setup.py do? The only thing you need to do to install the Etoys activity is unpack the bundle in the right place.

I searched the Sugarlabs wiki but it only mentioned that setup.py is used for some tasks in Python activities.

btw, thats a standard way to bundle activity(if activity has already installed) and install it(in distro meaning) :)

You should probably fix jhconvert to not rely on setup.py.

it should complicate process a bit - the only one activity that doesn't have setup.py is sugar-etoys

If that's too hard, point me to a spec (preferably on a semi-official Sugarlabs site) and I'll see what I can do.

well, its not distro specific stuff but sugar itself
see simple patch which I use

[alsroot]

and.. I meant sugar-etoys not etoys intself

[bert]

Still no word on what setup.py actually does. How it is called, which options it supports etc. See
​http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2009-April/014096.html

[alsroot]

Replying to bert:

Still no word on what setup.py actually does. How it is called, which options it supports etc. See
​http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2009-April/014096.html

just type:

$ ./setup.py
 
Available commands:

build                Build generated files
dev                  Setup for development
dist_xo              Create a xo bundle package
dist_source          Create a tar source package
fix_manifest         Add missing files to the manifest
genpot               Generate the gettext pot file
install              Install the activity in the system

(Type "./setup.py <command> --help" for help about a particular command's options.

[alsroot]

That would make sense. In fact, I previously made a mkDist.py script
(in the etoys repo) that would call the bundle builder to create an xo
bundle. It sets the dist_dir variable in the Config object. How would

I set the dist_dir when using setup.py?

dunno, I build .xo only for uploading it to ASLO, so I call "./setup.py dist_xo" by hands

[alsroot]

Etoys-105 has setup.py

[dnarvaez]

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