That last two bits are most important. The bindings from the upstream project are for the Maya API, with the (optional) Maya plug-in enabling import maya_python_c_extension without changes to the ...
Many teams end up with dedicated launchers — either dedicated applications or just .BAT files — whose job it is to configure maya on startup. For example you might keep parallel userSetup/code ...
As soon I've joined to the Rigging studies in Autodesk Maya (just to be able to rig my owns characters and animate it), I realized that in this area we are constantly learning and it let me opened to ...