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pythonsetuptoolssetup.py
NI6
NI6

Reputation: 2887

decide which package is installed in setup.py file

for the sake of the question, let's assume that under one git repository, I'm developing 2 independent packages. Consider the following structure:

my_repo/

    package1/
        ...some modules

    package2/
        ...some modules

    setup.py

setup.py code is:

from setuptools import setup

setup(
    name='Cool_package',
    version=1.0,
    description='...',
    author='Myself',
    packages=['package1', 'package2'],
    install_requires=[
                      ...
                     ]
    )

I'm using this command to install the packages in desired manner (avoiding python setup.py install or develop):

pip install -e .

And both package1 and package2 are installed.

My question is there a way to install only one of the two (user decides which one), considering that mentioned above structure requires them to share one setup.py file?

Again, I'm aware of that structure is not ideal (ideally I would split the packages into 2 separated repos).

Many thanks in advance!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1283

Answers (1)

a_guest
a_guest

Reputation: 36269

I suggest you to create one setup script for each package. You can share common information via a general setup.py script like so:

repo/
├── bar
├── foo
├── setup_bar.py
├── setup_foo.py
└── setup.py

2 directories, 3 files

Then the common setup.py file would contain the following code. It can also be used to install both packages at once:

from functools import partial
from setuptools import setup

setup = partial(
    setup,
    name='Cool_package',
    version=1.0,
    description='...',
    author='Myself',
    packages=['foo', 'bar']
)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    setup()

The separate setup_*.py scripts would reuse that information and only install a single package:

from setup import setup

setup(packages=['foo'])  # For `setup_foo.py`.
setup(packages=['bar'])  # For `setup_bar.py`.

This way the user can choose which package to install by using the corresponding setup script.

Upvotes: 1

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