xdistutils 0.2.0

Installation

xdistutils can be installed with pip or easy_install. In order to enable the recompress command, you’ll have to register the package with distutils. This can be done by adding the following to ~/.pydistutils.cfg:

[global]
command-packages=xdistutils

The advancecomp package must be installed on your system.

The recompress command

Every setup.py script now understands a recompress command, which will call advzip or advdef on any .zip, .egg or .tar.gz file generated by previous commands:

> python setup.py sdist bdist_egg recompress
running sdist
make: Nothing to be done for `all'.
running check
reading manifest template 'MANIFEST.in'
writing manifest file 'MANIFEST'
creating gevent-1.0dev
creating gevent-1.0dev/c-ares
...
writing build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/EGG-INFO/native_libs.txt
creating 'dist/gevent-1.0dev-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg' and adding 'build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg' to it
removing 'build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg' (and everything under it)
running recompress
advzip -z -4 dist/gevent-1.0dev.zip
     1300236     1243960  95% dist/gevent-1.0dev.zip
     1300236     1243960  95%
advzip -z -4 dist/gevent-1.0dev-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg
      366596      354053  96% dist/gevent-1.0dev-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg
      366596      354053  96%

The bdist_msi_fixed command

bdist_msi is used on windows in order to create a .msi installler. It’s part of standard distutils. Though a bug in distutils makes it impossible to upload those .msi files to the python package index with the upload command. bdist_msi_fixed provides a workaround:

> python setup.py bdist_msi_fixed
running bdist_msi_fixed
running bdist_msi
...
> python setup.py bdist_msi_fixed upload