xemu/python/README.rst
John Snow eae4e442ca python: add MANIFEST.in
When creating a source or binary distribution via 'python3 setup.py
<sdist|bdist>', the VERSION and PACKAGE.rst files aren't bundled by
default. Create a MANIFEST.in file that instructs the build tools to
include these so that installation from these files won't fail.

This is required by 'tox', as well as by the tooling needed to upload
packages to PyPI.

Exclude the 'README.rst' file -- that's intended as a guidebook to our
source tree, not a file that needs to be distributed.

Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: Cleber Rosa <crosa@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20210527211715.394144-14-jsnow@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
2021-06-01 16:21:21 -04:00

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QEMU Python Tooling
===================
This directory houses Python tooling used by the QEMU project to build,
configure, and test QEMU. It is organized by namespace (``qemu``), and
then by package (e.g. ``qemu/machine``, ``qemu/qmp``, etc).
``setup.py`` is used by ``pip`` to install this tooling to the current
environment. ``setup.cfg`` provides the packaging configuration used by
``setup.py`` in a setuptools specific format. You will generally invoke
it by doing one of the following:
1. ``pip3 install .`` will install these packages to your current
environment. If you are inside a virtual environment, they will
install there. If you are not, it will attempt to install to the
global environment, which is **not recommended**.
2. ``pip3 install --user .`` will install these packages to your user's
local python packages. If you are inside of a virtual environment,
this will fail; you likely want the first invocation above.
If you append the ``-e`` argument, pip will install in "editable" mode;
which installs a version of the package that installs a forwarder
pointing to these files, such that the package always reflects the
latest version in your git tree.
See `Installing packages using pip and virtual environments
<https://packaging.python.org/guides/installing-using-pip-and-virtual-environments/>`_
for more information.
Files in this directory
-----------------------
- ``qemu/`` Python package source directory.
- ``MANIFEST.in`` is read by python setuptools, it specifies additional files
that should be included by a source distribution.
- ``PACKAGE.rst`` is used as the README file that is visible on PyPI.org.
- ``README.rst`` you are here!
- ``VERSION`` contains the PEP-440 compliant version used to describe
this package; it is referenced by ``setup.cfg``.
- ``setup.cfg`` houses setuptools package configuration.
- ``setup.py`` is the setuptools installer used by pip; See above.