how to make "python setup.py install" install source instead of egg file?

Question

I used to run python setup.py install in a python project, it will just move the source to site-packages, but sometimes it will mv an egg file to site-packages?

#!/usr/bin/env python
# encoding: utf-8

from setuptools import setup,find_packages

setup(
    name = "ipin_rpc_gen_vector",
    version = "0.0.2",
    packages = find_packages("src"),
    package_dir={"":"src"},
    install_requires=[

    ],
)

So what is the difference behind this? When will it install source, when will it just install egg file? How can I force install source instead of egg file?

Answer 1

You have to set the zip_safe flag to False if you want to avoid the zip (egg) behaviour.

You can read more about it at https://setuptools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/userguide/miscellaneous.html#setting-the-zip-safe-flag.

Also check out https://setuptools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/userguide/keywords.html#new-and-changed-setup-keywords and the *_package_data flags (also at: https://setuptools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/references/keywords.html).