install_binaries is a tool to help you create wrappers around
executable files. It ensures that they're installed in a reasonable
directory, and that they have their +x bit set. It should work fine
with old versions of pip and setuptools, and with Python 2.7 and up.
It should work with both sdist and bdist_wheel packages.
To use it, you have to do two things. First, you need to add two lines
to your setup.py:
setup(
name="my_cool_app",
...
setup_requires=['install_binaries'],
install_binaries=['my-binary', 'build/other-one'],
)
This will install both my-binary and other-one to
.../my-virtualenv/bin when your package is installed.
Second, you need to make sure your binary is included in your
MANIFEST.in file. So that might look like:
include requirements.txt
include VERSION
include my-binary
include build/other-one
If it's left out, it won't be included in the package that python setup.py sdist creates.
If your package gets installed as an egg, by using easy_install or
setup.py install, the install_binaries code never gets called, so we
have no chance to install the binaries. There may be a way around this,
but I haven't found it. install_binaries attempts to warn the user in
this situation.