Ken Giusti created PROTON-630:
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Summary: [python] Add a setup.py for installing the python
bindings via PyPi
Key: PROTON-630
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PROTON-630
Project: Qpid Proton
Issue Type: New Feature
Components: python-binding
Affects Versions: 0.7
Reporter: Ken Giusti
Assignee: Ken Giusti
Fix For: 0.8
Include a setup.py that can be used to upload/download the python bindings from
PyPi.
Rational: This feature would allow our python bindings to properly integrate
with python virtual environments such as virtualenv. virtualenv allows a
developer to override the python packages installed on their system.
virtualenv works with pip to fetch python packages from repositories such as
PyPi, allowing a developer to create a custom python environment that can be
used for developing and testing python applications.
Since we currently lack an easy method for providing the python bindings via
PyPi, virtual environments cannot include proton python bindings, as the
site-packages installed on the 'real' system are not available in the virtual
environment by default.
However, system libraries, such as libproton, *are* able to be referenced by
the virtual environment by default. Given that, this new setup.py should only
need to install the python files that live under site-packages. Specifically,
only the proton.py, cproton.py, and the _cproton.so files need to be provided.
The setup.py should be written to actually include the swig-generated C source,
and build _cproton.so from it as part of the install into the target
environment.
See https://virtualenv.pypa.io/en/latest/index.html for more details regarding
virtual environments.
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