The distutils module allows to include and install resource files together with Python modules. How to properly include them if resource files should be generated during a building process?
For example, the project is a web application which contains CoffeeScript sources that should be compiled into JavaScript and included in a Python package then. Is there a way to integrate this into a normal sdist/bdist process?
The best way would be to write a custom build_coffeescript command and make it a subcommand of build. More details are given in other replies to similar/duplicate questions, for example this one: