build_develop.py

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"""
This script installs a development link to the Dragonfly 
source directory into the local Python distribution.

This is useful for Dragonfly developers, because it lets 
them have a working copy checked out from the Dragonfly 
repository somewhere, and at the same time have that copy 
directly accessible through ``import dragonfly``.

"""


import sys
import os
import os.path
import subprocess


def main():
    from pkg_resources import resource_filename
    setup_path = os.path.abspath(resource_filename(__name__, "setup.py"))

    commands = ["egg_info", "--tag-build=.dev", "-r", "develop"]

    arguments = [sys.executable, setup_path] + commands
    os.chdir(os.path.dirname(setup_path))
    subprocess.call(arguments)
 

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()