Hi all,
since I am getting a bit confused about this topic, I thought I start a small
discussion on it.
Background was our sync app PISI (written in Python), which we now tried to
include in distributions (here SHR) using BB files.
Martin was kind enough to prepare a first draft of the bb file (and all the
other stuff required) in order to get a running package for PISI (thx again) ...
Last night, I was then trying to take these avaialbe files and wanted to modify
in order to suit our needs appropriately. I started with changing the files ...
was looking around on setuptools documents, changed more files - and then came
back to the following question:
*** Should we really install a Python application as a site-package?? ***
Setuptools (and whatever similar stuff is out there for Python packaging) is a
very good tool to assemble and distribute Python site-packages (so to say
Python libraries) - stuff, that extends Python by some additional functionality.
A program, however, does not extend the functionaility of the language - it is
just an application itself.
So, my question is, whether we should distinguish between libraries and
applications when talking about packaging Python programs. libraries
would go into site-packages; applications into some corresponding folder
(e.g. /opt/$PROGRAMNAME) ...
That is just a suggestion - I am really not sure, which is the way to go. How
are other Python applications handling this issue? For me it looks somehow
artificial to put an application under site-packages for Python.
Comments are very welcome ... :D
Michael
Original-Nachricht
Datum: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:54:28 +0200
Von: Martin Jansa martin.ja...@gmail.com
An: List for Openmoko community discussion community@lists.openmoko.org
Betreff: Re: PISI 0.4 released
Hi,
on Friday I uploaded patch for OE repository to shr trac:
http://trac.shr-project.org/trac/ticket/592
http://trac.shr-project.org/trac/ticket/592Patch contains support for
setuptools (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools), which seems like
standard tool for managing python packages, that's files ez_setup.py,
setup.py and setup.cfg. It would be nice if you include those 3 files in
your source distribution package.
I also found few files missing from
http://projects.openmoko.org/frs/download.php/888/pisi-src-0.4.4.tar.gz,
which were available in subversion repository, so I made only bbfile for
live subversion version of pisi, I can found which files were missing if
you can include them to pisi-src too.
As last modification of your source distribution I created pisi python
module and moved all pisi stuff and subdirs there, because this bbfile
installs pisi directly in /usr/lib/python*/site-packages/pisi not to
/opt/pisi and having lots of files and directories only for pisi directly
in
site-packages seemed wrong for me.
So i rearranged source files like this:
mkdir pisi
mv pisi*.py pisi
touch pisi/__init__.py
mv contacts/ modules/ events/ tests/ thirdparty/ pisi
As I said before, I'm not python programer so setuptools and python
packages
are new for me, so it would be nice if someone could confirm, that this
structure is sane and you could rearrange files in subversion to simplyfi
building process.
I'll try to prepare bbfiles for new development version dependencies as
you
wrote in second thread.
JaMa
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 7:35 PM, Michael Pilgermann
kichka...@gmx.dewrote:
JaMa,
thx for this offer. I don't really know, what in detail you are talking
about ... i was quite happy, that I managed to assemble ipkg - this is
all done automatically using a Makefile:
https://projects.openmoko.org/plugins/scmsvn/viewcvs.php/*checkout*/trunk/Makefile?rev=135root=pisi
But integrating all this in feeds of repositories of course sounds good
to me ... just let me know, what exactly I can do for you - I am sure we
can sort that out
(till now I have always just copied the files into my ipkgs)
Michael
Martin Jansa wrote:
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Martin Jansa martin.ja...@gmail.com
mailto:martin.ja...@gmail.com wrote:
I have no experience with python, but I can try to prepare
setup.py
for
setuptools next week, if you have no time or interest in it and
then
send you patch.
I had some spare time.. so before going for vacation, here is
something
which works for me, at least seems like working for me :).
Maybe something could be integrated upstream so simplify bbfile for
next
version.
Regards,
JaMa
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