Distribution File Template (_dist_)

When I develop on a local machine, I usually want to use the code immediately after I make changes and also see what was done since my last svn revision. To publish the code and any programs to the local computer, I write a short shell script for this that I call "_dist_". Here I provide the template for a full featured "_dist_" file for my JTools suite (which is a package, modules, bin files, shared files, etc.) that has, among other contents, the following directory structure:

• JTools/
• _dist_
• share/
• reslib.pkl
• src/
• bin/
• swapit
• fix-cns-chainIDs

• measure-hbonds
• merge-headers
• JTools/
• __init__.py
• distortion.py
• jtoolslib.py

In the "_dist_" file below, if a project does not need to locally publish a particular type of file (e.g. "shrfiles"), then just assign it blank like this:

set shrfiles=""

And here is the template for the distribution file:

#! /bin/csh -f

############################################################
# Change these
############################################################

#
# Specific to the suite
#

# name of the directory that the entire suite resides
set name="JTools"

# name of the python package (i.e. has an __init__.py)
set package="JTools"

# names of the files that are necessary for the package library
set libfiles="__init__.py jtoolslib.py distortion.py"

# names of the executable files in the bin/directory
set binfiles="swapit fix-cns-chainIDs measure-hbonds merge-headers"

# names of any shared resources
set shrfiles="reslib.pkl"

#
# Specific to computer's setup
#

# where the suite resides
set codedir="${HOME}/Code"

# where local or personal python modules go
set libdir="${HOME}/Code/python"

# where executable files go
set bindir="${HOME}/bin"

# where shared resources go
set shrdir="${HOME}/Code/share"
############################################################


############################################################
# Generally, no need to change things below here
############################################################
set shr="share"
set srcbin="src/bin"
set srcpkg="src/${package}"

set pkgdir="${libdir}/${package}"
set distdir="${codedir}/${name}"

cd ${distdir}

echo ' '
svn status
echo ' '

if ( "${%libfiles}" > 0 ) then
 rm -rf ${pkgdir}
 mkdir ${pkgdir}
 cd ${distdir}
 cd ${srcpkg}
 echo Copying ${libfiles} to ${pkgdir}
 cp ${libfiles} ${pkgdir}
endif

if ( "${%binfiles}" > 0 ) then
 cd ${distdir}
 cd ${srcbin}
 echo Copying ${binfiles} to ${bindir}
 cp ${binfiles} ${bindir}
endif

if ( "${%shrfiles}" > 0 ) then
 cd ${distdir}
 cd ${shr}
 echo Copying ${shrfiles} to ${shrdir}
 cp ${shrfiles} ${shrdir}
endif

echo ' '
echo Success.
echo ' '