How to manage several python project with console_scripts in PATH?

[byumov]

Hi,
I have a problem with manage several projects with console_scripts. We need to put several project to system PATH.
Let it be vault-tool, config-tool and other-tool.

All three *-tool is a separated projects with their own repo, setup.py and development cycle.
Each project installed to their virtualenv like this:

/opt/python-vault/bin/python
/opt/python-config/bin/python
/opt/python-other/bin/python

We need all scripts in PATH, so:
PATH=$PATH:/opt/python-vault/bin:/opt/python-config/bin:/opt/python-other/bin
And there we have a problem, because all three tool depend on other-tool. And we have three other-tool script (in all virtualenvs). It's a mess.

How I can prevent install console_scripts when package installed as dependency?
Is there a way to put console_scripts to other directory (not ./bin/)?
Any other ideas? Thanks.

[abravalheri]

How I can prevent install console_scripts when package installed as dependency?

Hi @byumov, I don't know about any tool in that allows you not installing console_scripts. This is probably a question that you might want to direct to a installer, like pip, since setuptools is trying to reduce its scope and avoid performing the installation of packages itself (python setup.py install is considered deprecated).

Is there a way to put console_scripts to other directory (not ./bin/)?

I am afraid that this is also outside of the scope of the setuptools project. Maybe you can try to play with installer? However, you probably will need to write your own script and handle dependencies directly (as the existing installer CLI does not allow specifying the paths).

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Instead if adding the separated virtual environments' bin folder to PATH, how about you create a symbolic link to the executables (e.g. vault-tool, config-tool and other-tool) inside a different folder (that is already on $PATH, e.g. $HOME/.local/bin, or that can be added to path)?

Alternatively you might also consider using something like https://pypa.github.io/pipx/.