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Add more explanation of how data_files is used (esp. where the files end up

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in the installation and how that location is determined).
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Fred Drake 2002-03-08 22:02:06 +00:00
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@ -632,8 +632,8 @@ The \option{data\_files} option can be used to specify additional
files needed by the module distribution: configuration files,
data files, anything which does not fit in the previous categories.
\option{data\_files} specify a sequence of \code{(directory, files)}
pairs in the following way:
\option{data\_files} specifies a sequence of (\var{directory},
\var{files}) pairs in the following way:
\begin{verbatim}
setup(...
@ -644,6 +644,17 @@ setup(...
Note that you can specify the directory names where the data files
will be installed, but you cannot rename the data files themselves.
Each (\var{directory}, \var{files}) pair in the sequence specifies the
installation directory and the files to install there. If
\var{directory} is a relative path, it is interpreted relative to the
installation prefix (Python's \code{sys.prefix} for pure-Python
packages, \code{sys.exec_prefix} for packages that contain extension
modules). Each file name in \var{files} is interpreted relative to
the \file{setup.py} script at the top of the package source
distribution. No directory information from \var{files} is used to
determine the final location of the installed file; only the name of
the file is used.
You can specify the \option{data\_files} options as a simple sequence
of files without specifying a target directory, but this is not recommended,
and the \command{install} command will print a warning in this case.