Cyril Roelandt <tipec...@gmail.com> writes: > On 03/25/2016 11:02 PM, Nils Gillmann wrote: >> I have a question on python. >> My theory is that this is true: >> If I write a setup.py and contribute it to a project because I >> want to make an "easier"[1] install in Guix and elsewhere, >> I feed the "one packagemanager per language" thing. >> > > Not really. You can use setup.py without pip. Think of setup.py as some > kind of Makefile for Python. > >> Is setup.py the equivalent of a package manager in python or does >> it serve more purposes? I would like to know if I want to follow >> my current task in either fixing the setup.py I started for the >> upcoming bitmessage 0.6 release or if I want to write a Guix >> package without using out python-setup-tools which require >> setup.py to be present. >> > > No, the equivalent of a package manager is "pip", which uses packages > from pypi.python.org.
Ah, interesting. Thanks! > If we are talking about > https://bitmessage.org/wiki/Compiling_instructions , I must say the > installation instructions are a bit weird for a Python project. Yeah, I'm not focused on bitmessage.org, but I suppose it's the same. https://github.com/mailchuck/PyBitmessage will soon be merged into https://github.com/Bitmessage/PyBitmessage , that's where I try to work with to get away from using a git checkout. > Cyril. > > -- ng personal contact: http://krosos.sdf.org EDN: https://wiki.c3d2.de/EDN
