Add way of installing parallel mod_wsgi-standalone package.

MANIFEST.in

@@ -15,3 +15,4 @@ include docs/_build/html/_static/css/*
 include docs/_build/html/_static/font/*
 include docs/_build/html/_static/js/*
 include docs/_build/html/_sources/*
+include pyproject.toml

README.rst

@@ -108,6 +108,11 @@ distributions for Windows aren't always complete and are missing the files
 needed to compile additional Apache modules. By default, it is expected
 that Apache is installed in the directory ``C:/Apache24`` on Windows.
 
+If you are on Linux, macOS or other UNIX type operating system and can't
+or don't want to use the system package for Apache, you can use ``pip``
+to install mod_wsgi, but you should use use the ``mod_wsgi-standalone``
+package on PyPi instead of the ``mod_wsgi`` package.
+
 Installation into Apache
 ------------------------
 
@@ -146,6 +151,16 @@ standard location, you can set and export the ``APXS`` environment variable
 to the location of the Apache ``apxs`` script for your Apache installation
 before performing the installation.
 
+If you are using Linux, macOS or other UNIX type operating system, and you
+don't have Apache available, you can instead install mod_wsgi using::
+
+    pip install mod_wsgi-standalone
+
+When installing ``mod_wsgi-standalone``, it will also install a version
+of Apache into your Python distribution. You can only use ``mod_wsgi-express``
+when using this variant of the package. The ``mod_wsgi-standalone`` package
+follows the same version numbering as the ``mod_wsgi`` package on PyPi.
+
 If you are on Windows and your Apache distribution is not installed into
 the directory ``C:/Apache24``, first set the environment variable
 ``MOD_WSGI_APACHE_ROOTDIR`` to the directory containing the Apache

docs/release-notes.rst

@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ Release Notes
 .. toctree::
    :maxdepth: 2
 
+   release-notes/version-4.7.0
+
    release-notes/version-4.6.8
    release-notes/version-4.6.7
    release-notes/version-4.6.6

docs/release-notes/version-4.7.0.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+=============
+Version 4.7.0
+=============
+
+Version 4.7.0 of mod_wsgi can be obtained from:
+
+  https://codeload.github.com/GrahamDumpleton/mod_wsgi/tar.gz/4.7.0
+
+New Features
+------------
+
+* Now releasing parallel ``mod_wsgi-standalone`` package to PyPi. This is
+  the same as the ``mod_wsgi`` package, except that by installing the
+  ``mod_wsgi-standalone`` package, it will automatically trigger the
+  ``mod_wsgi-httpd`` package to install the Apache HTTPD server as part
+  of your Python installation. When you run ``mod_wsgi-express`` it will
+  use that Apache HTTPD server installation.
+
+  The ``mod_wsgi-standalone`` package is required where you need to install
+  ``mod_wsgi-express`` using its own Apache HTTPD installation due to no
+  system Apache HTTPD server package being available, and the installation
+  needs to be done using a ``requirements.txt`` file for ``pip`` or other
+  package install manager. Using ``mod_wsgi-standalone`` will ensure
+  that the ``mod_wsgi-httpd`` package is installed first before attempting
+  to build and install mod_wsgi. This guarantee is not provided by ``pip``
+  if you list ``mod_wsgi-httpd`` and ``mod_wsgi`` packages as two entries.
+
+  The version numbering of the ``mod_wsgi-standalone`` package will follow
+  the ``mod_wsgi`` versioning.

package.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+set -eo pipefail
+
+rm -rf dist
+
+rm -f pyproject.toml
+
+python setup.py sdist
+
+ln -s pyproject.toml.in pyproject.toml
+
+python setup.py sdist
+
+rm -f pyproject.toml

pyproject.toml.in

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+[build-system]
+requires = ["setuptools>=40.8.0", "wheel", "mod_wsgi-httpd==2.4.41.1"]
+build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta:__legacy__"

setup.py

@@ -544,7 +544,9 @@ def _version():
 
 long_description = open('README.rst').read()
 
-setup(name = 'mod_wsgi',
+standalone = os.path.exists('pyproject.toml')
+
+setup(name = standalone and 'mod_wsgi-standalone' or 'mod_wsgi',
     version = _version(),
     description = 'Installer for Apache/mod_wsgi.',
     long_description = long_description,
@@ -590,4 +592,5 @@ def _version():
     entry_points = { 'console_scripts':
         ['mod_wsgi-express = mod_wsgi.server:main'],},
     zip_safe = False,
+    install_requires = standalone and ['mod_wsgi-httpd==2.4.41.1'] or [],
 )