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Ken Giusti resolved PROTON-630. ------------------------------- Resolution: Fixed > [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. > Since only the python-specific files are provided, and the swig-generated C > code must be built on the target machine, the setup.py will assume that the > developer has already installed the proton libraries and header files on the > target machine. To be clear: this feature will still *require* proton to be > installed on the developer's machine - it merely allows the python bindings > to then be installed into a virtual python site-packages via pip/PyPi. > See https://virtualenv.pypa.io/en/latest/index.html for more details > regarding virtual environments. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.2#6252)