On Wed, 2018-07-25 at 16:55 +0200, Michael Wild wrote: > How should I go about packaging a Python executable? Separate packages > for python2 and python3? Only one of them? If so, which? If for both, > is there any advice how to achieve this? I don't think that the > python-wheel.cygclass deals with scripts in /usr/bin/ as the docs say > that scripts should be added to PKG_CONTENTS by the maintainer. How > would I go about making sure that I get a *2 and *3 version, also > possibly with a symlink from * to *2? Is there a cannonical example I > can look into? My casual trawling through my own Cygwin installation > didn't turn up anything useful...
Depends on the package. Most python-based scripts also include modules, and sometimes those modules are generally usable and the script is just a convenient entrypoint thereto (in which case it should be named 'python-foo', *2 and *3 should be made via python- wheel.cygclass, and the script packaged with *3), and sometimes they serve only themselves (in which case it should be named 'foo' and packaged with the appropriate choice of python{2,3}- {distutils,wheel}.cygclass). -- Yaakov Selkowitz Software Engineer - Platform Enablement Group Red Hat, Inc.