plugins' templates directories are not installed

[AlexandreLanglade]

Hi !

I try to install my own plugins inside my NetBox venv. I don't use a new venv for each plugin.
After the installation, the templates directory is absent in the plugins' dir in site-packages.

My setup.py :

from setuptools import find_packages, setup

setup(
   name='name',
   version='1',
   description='desc',
   install_requires=[],
   packages=find_packages(),
   include_package_data=True,
   zip_safe=False,
)

Py : v3.8.0

Anyone experience something similar ?

[AlexandreLanglade]

I've found someone with the same question but he answered himself so I don't know if it's the best solution :
#7414

[candlerb]

[AlexandreLanglade]

@candlerb
Thank you for your answer, I've updated the question while you were responding.
In fact for the old version of my question : all the plugins were looking in the same plugin's template directory because it was the only one installed in editable mode so the templates dir was obviously here.

[AlexandreLanglade]

When I execute find_packages at the root of my plugin project, I can observ that it doesn't see the templates dir :

>>> from setuptools import find_packages
>>> a = find_packages()
>>> a
['pluginname', 'pluginname.api', 'pluginname.migrations']

[AlexandreLanglade]

If I install all the plugins with the editable option (the 'develop' argument) python3 setup.py develop as it is shown in the plugin dev tutorial, I have no problem.
But it's not very clean to let them editable when they are terminated.

[cslingerland]

I had to use the MANIFEST file just like the answer you suggested earlier. Works well for me.