setup.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

import os
import sys
import re

try:
    from setuptools import setup, find_packages
except:
    sys.exit("Error: missing python-setuptools library")

# Better to use exec to load the package information from a version.py file
# so to not have to import the package. as of it, the setup.py do not need to be modified
# for each package that is built from this one...
with open(os.path.join('version.py')) as fh:
    manifest = {}
    exec(fh.read(), manifest)
# The `manifest` dictionary now contains the package metadata

# Get the package name from the manifest
package_name = manifest["__pkg_name__"]

# Build list of all installable data files
# This will get:
# - all the files from the package `etc` subdir
# - all the files from the package `libexec` subdir
# and will define the appropriate target installation directory
print("\n====================================================")
print("Searching for data files...")
data_files = [
    # ('.', ['LICENSE', 'README.rst', 'requirements.txt', 'version.py'])
]
for subdir, dirs, files in os.walk(package_name):
    target = None
    # Plugins directory
    if subdir and 'libexec' in subdir:
        target = os.path.join('var/libexec/alignak',
                              re.sub(r"^(%s\/|%s$)" % (
                                  os.path.join(package_name, 'libexec'),
                                  os.path.join(package_name, 'libexec')),
                                     "", subdir))
    # Configuration directory
    elif subdir and 'etc' in subdir:
        target = os.path.join('etc/alignak',
                              re.sub(r"^(%s\/|%s$)" % (
                                  os.path.join(package_name, 'etc'),
                                  os.path.join(package_name, 'etc')),
                                     "", subdir))

    if target is None:
        print("Ignoring directory: %s" % (subdir))
        continue

    package_files = []
    for file in files:
        # Ignore files which name starts with __
        if file.startswith('__'):
            continue

        package_files.append(os.path.join(subdir, file))

    if package_files:
        data_files.append((target, package_files))

for (target, origin) in data_files:
    print("Target directory: %s:" % (target))
    for file in origin:
        print(" - %s" % (file))
print("====================================================\n")

setup(
    # Package name and version
    name=manifest["__pkg_name__"],
    version=manifest["__version__"],

    # Metadata for PyPI
    author=manifest["__author__"],
    author_email=manifest["__author_email__"],
    keywords="alignak monitoring module " + manifest["__module_types__"],
    url=manifest["__git_url__"],
    license=manifest["__license__"],
    description=manifest["__description__"],
    long_description=open('README.rst').read(),

    classifiers = manifest["__classifiers__"],

    # Unzip Egg
    zip_safe=False,

    # Package data
    packages=find_packages(),
    include_package_data=True,
    # package_data={
    #     '': 'README.rst',
    #     '': 'AUTHORS',
    #     '': 'LICENSE',
    #     '': [os.path.join(manifest["__pkg_name__"], '*')],
    # },

    # Where to install distributed files
    data_files = data_files,

    # Dependencies (if some) ...
    install_requires=[],

    # Entry points (if some) ...
    entry_points={
    },
)