Question

I’m trying to distribute this app that I wrote in python. The application consists of 2 python scripts. 2 .glade files and 1 .png file.

Here is my dir structure on this project

vasm/
    vasmcc.py
    src/
       vasm.py
    gui/
       vasm.glade
       vasmset.glade
       logo.png

vasmcc is just the python script for the gui… the real python module would be vasm.py.

My question is, how do I distribute this so that it includes the .glade and the .png files?

By distribute I mean provide an installable source package that can be installed on to another system.

Answer 1

You should take a look at distutils. You can tell it to install all kinds of files, not just the source code itself. For the user, installing your program then comes down to

$ python setup.py install

and it’s even pretty easy to, say, create RPM packages with distutils.