How do I create a pip installable project?

Question

How do I create a pip installable project? How do you register with pip?

What meta data config should all projects have in order to allow integration and easy import.

Answer 1

You need to

1. Write a setup.py file
2. Run python setup.py sdist tar gzipped file.
3. Run register or submit the project using the web form.

You can register using:

>> python setup.py register

An exmaple setup.py file is:

#!/usr/bin/env python

from distutils.core import setup

 setup(name='Distutils',
  version='1.0',
  description='Python Distribution Utilities',
  author='Greg Ward',
  author_email='gward@python.net',
  url='http://www.python.org/sigs/distutils-sig/',
  packages=['distutils', 'distutils.command'],
 )

Users will then just have to upack the taz file and run install..

>> python setup.py install