All of the tools we mentioned previously (setuptools, Distutils and numpy.distutils) are centered around the function setup. To get an understanding of most packaging requirements, we will look into a simple setup function and then study a full-fledged installer. To create a basic installer, we need to call the setup function with metadata about the package. Let's call our first package py_hello, which has just one function greeter, and just prints a message when called. The package can be downloaded from the Bitbucket repository at https://bitbucket.org/tdatta/books/src/af376df081ef/python/simple_setup/?at=master The project directory structure for the project looks like the following:
py_hello
├── README
├── MANIFEST.in
├── setup.py
├── bin
│ └── greeter.bat
└── greeter
├── __init__.py
├── greeter.py
Let's look at some standard files here:
README-This file is used to store information...