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I understand distutils is the defacto standard for the module installation world, using the common
setup.py install
But what if I don’t want to install my program as a module but instead as a program, that can be executed by the user?
If I’m not being clear I’m very sorry but feel free to ask more questions.
Thanks!
I’d hope that you’re structuring your code so that the bulk of it is modular and could be imported into other code. In that structure than your application is a wrapper between the program’s command-line and/or other user interfaces and the functionality provided by your modules.
That said, here’s a pointer to the relevant documentation on Installing Scripts.