setup.py: renaming src package to project name

Question

Let\'s say you have a project called proj and in this project you have the following structure:

proj/
  dists/
  doc/
  src/
    __init__.py
            


        

Answer 1

This is due to a bug in setuptools reported here: https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/250

Basically, it does work but not in dev mode. Now on you have 3 solutions:

• symlink the src package as proj (and ignore it when comitting), it will works out of the box but is dirty
• change from src to proj
• create a subdirectory proj in src and use the following options:

packages=['proj'],
package_dir={'proj': 'src/proj'},