Use python's standard packaging

Hi,

It's important to make python packages easily installable for users.  I saw one 
comment on the wiki about this and I certainly want to be able to pip install 
or easy_install this package.  It's a real pain when you see you have to 
download a file manually and put it somewhere manually.

Attached is a setup.py file that works with standard python packaging so it can 
be on pypi with easy installation.

Simply create a ~/.pypirc file with:

[distutils]
index-servers =
    pypi

[pypi]
username:yourusername
password:yourpassword

Then in your project dir you can register the pyshp project which only ever 
needs to be done once with:

python setup.py register

From then on when creating a new release you can create a source tarball with:

python setup.py sdist

And once you are happy you can upload with:

python setup.py sdist upload

I tested all these and they work which made pyshp installable with:

pip install pyshp

easy_install pyshp

(I have since deleted the package that I registered and uploaded for testing).

You can also use develop mode when working on the project with:

python setup.py develop

Original issue reported on code.google.com by memedo...@gmail.com on 31 Aug 2011 at 5:08

Attachments:

setup.py

tarsh / pyshp

Use python's standard packaging #14