Custom distutils commands

Question

I have a library called \"example\" that I\'m installing into my global site-packages directory. However, I\'d like to be able to install two versions, one for production a

Answer 1

Sure, you can extend distutils with new commands. In your distutil configuration file, add:

 [global]
 command-packages=foo.bar

this can be in distutils.cfg in the distutils package itself, ..pydistutils.cfg in your home directory (no leading dot on Windows), or setup.cfg in the current directory.

Then you need a foo.bar package in your Python's site-packages directory.

Then in that package you add the classes implementing your new desired commands, such as stage, subclassing distutils.cmd -- the docs are weak, but there are plenty of examples since all the existing distutils commands are also built that way.