Having fun with setuptools

As already noted yesterday the CheeseShop is getting interesting for the common Zope folks. So I took the opportunity to play around a bit more with i18ndude and setuptools.

The result is a new i18ndude 2.1 release that is available as an egg from the CheeseShop. All you need to do, is to run easy_install i18ndude to get the latest version.

But while reading the setuptools documentation I found yet another useful feature which is called automatic script creation. Now I have developed on the MS Windows platform for quite some years and have always hated to have to write wrapper scripts around Python scripts myself in order to make them callable.

Now thanks to setuptools this step is automatically taken care of and an i18ndude.exe is created automatically if you easy_install i18ndude :)

But I was even more adventurous and tried out the integrated distutils support for building nice installers and found that I only had to type in a single command to get a nice Windows installer in addition to the egg build and have them automatically uploaded to the CheeseShop:

python setup.py register bdist_egg bdist_wininst upload -s

While you have to be on a Windows system to be able to create that installer, this is not harder than doing an tar.gz release.

So make sure to grab the new experimental installer for i18ndude 2.1.1 and report back any issues you find in the bug tracker.

If this turns out to be as easy as it looks like right now, you might find new installers for the various plone.* packages in the future as well. Now a way to register those releases on plone.org from the command line as well would be nice ;)