On 2019-6-24 23:55 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
> 
> On Jun 23, 2019, at 05:02, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> 
>> I guess this then changes my question into: how could we get rid of
>> these two rows?
>>
>>    master_sites        pypi:[string index ${python.rootname}
>> 0]/${python.rootname}
>>    distname            ${python.rootname}-${version}
>>
>> We still need to keep in mind that some ports might prefer to fetch
>> python modules from github for whatever reason, so it needs to keep
>> working in cases like those.
>>
>> Maybe something along the lines of "python.use_pypi yes" which would
>> set the two?
> 
> I think that would be my recommendation, yes. The similar functionality in 
> the php-1.1 portgroup (php.pecl yes) has been in place for years and works 
> fine as far as I can tell (however most php modules are maintained by me, so 
> it's possible that if there were many others maintaining php modules, their 
> unique coding styles might reveal problems with this approach that I haven't 
> encountered with my coding style). python.use_pypi would be an option, it 
> would default to no, and you would add an option_proc to it (like php-1.1's 
> php._set_pecl) so that when it is set to yes, it would set pypi-appropriate 
> values for distname, master_sites, and the livecheck options. Maybe it should 
> only set the *defaults* of those options, rather than setting the options 
> themselves... but I see that in the php-1.1 portgroup I'm setting the values, 
> not the defaults, and I don't remember if that was intentional. Oh well.

I don't see why a new option is needed. Using pypi master_sites is a
reasonable default, and master_sites and distname can be changed to
something else if needed.

- Josh

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