+1
-Jake
On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 7:24 PM, Kevin Sweeney <kswee...@twitter.com.invalid
> wrote:
> Somewhat complementary work - this change would make the generated packages
> equivalent to the ultimate goal of replacing these top-level BUILD files
> directly with setup.py files. Users could begin testing deployment with the
> pants-generated sdists and seamlessly drop in setup.py-generated
> replacements. Users wishing to deploy via PEX could use the pex tool on the
> generated sdists rather than the pants pex plugin.
>
> On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 4:13 PM, Bill Farner <wfar...@apache.org> wrote:
>
> > We've talked in the past about switching build tools. Just to keep that
> in
> > context - how would you weigh this effort against a tool change?
> >
> > -=Bill
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 4:00 PM, Kevin Sweeney <kevi...@apache.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > > I propose a simplification of the Python BUILD layout as follows and a
> > set
> > > of new conventions, as follows:
> > >
> > > 1) 1 BUILD per 3rd level directory. These are currently
> > >
> > > ```
> > > % find src/main/python -maxdepth 3 -mindepth 3 -type d |while read
> > dirname;
> > > do echo $dirname | sed 's@src
> > /main/python/\(.*\)/\(.*\)/\(.*\).*@\1.\2.\3@
> > > ';
> > > done
> > > apache.aurora.client
> > > apache.aurora.common
> > > apache.aurora.tools
> > > apache.aurora.admin
> > > apache.aurora.executor
> > > apache.aurora.config
> > > apache.thermos.monitoring
> > > apache.thermos.common
> > > apache.thermos.cli
> > > apache.thermos.testing
> > > apache.thermos.core
> > > apache.thermos.runner
> > > apache.thermos.observer
> > > apache.thermos.config
> > > ```
> > >
> > > 2) Each BUILD file exports 1 python_library that provides a setup_py
> > > containing each python_binary in the BUILD file, named the same as the
> > > directory it's in so that it can be referenced without a ':' character.
> > The
> > > sources field in the python_binary will always be rglobs('*.py').
> > >
> > > 3) Other BUILD files may only depend on this single public
> python_library
> > > target. Any other target is considered a private implementation detail
> > and
> > > should be prefixed with an _.
> > >
> > > 4) python_binary targets are always named the same as the exported
> > console
> > > script.
> > >
> > > 5) python_binary targets must have identical dependencies to the
> > > python_library exported by the package and must use entry_point.
> > >
> > > The advantage of this change is that a PEX file generated by pants will
> > > contain exactly the same files that will be available on the PYTHONPATH
> > in
> > > the case of pip-installation of the corresponding library target. This
> > will
> > > help our migration off pants in the future.
> > >
> > > Annotated example: apache.thermos.runner (renamed thermos/bin ->
> > > thermos/runner)
> > >
> > > ```
> > > % find src/main/python/apache/thermos/runner
> > > src/main/python/apache/thermos/runner
> > > src/main/python/apache/thermos/runner/__init__.py
> > > src/main/python/apache/thermos/runner/thermos_runner.py
> > > src/main/python/apache/thermos/runner/BUILD
> > > % cat src/main/python/apache/thermos/runner/BUILD
> > > # License boilerplate omitted
> > > import os
> > >
> > >
> > > # Private target so that a setup_py can exist without a circular
> > > dependency. Only targets within this file should depend on
> > > # this.
> > > python_library(
> > > name = '_runner',
> > > # The target covers every python file under this directory and
> > > subdirectories.
> > > sources = rglobs('*.py'),
> > > dependencies = [
> > > '3rdparty/python:twitter.common.app',
> > > '3rdparty/python:twitter.common.log',
> > > # Source dependencies are always referenced without a ':'.
> > > 'src/main/python/apache/thermos/common',
> > > 'src/main/python/apache/thermos/config',
> > > 'src/main/python/apache/thermos/core',
> > > ],
> > > )
> > >
> > > # Binary target for thermos_runner.pex. Nothing should depend on this -
> > > it's only used as an argument to ./pants binary.
> > > python_binary(
> > > name = 'thermos_runner',
> > > # Use entry_point, not source so the files used here are the same
> ones
> > > tests see.
> > > entry_point = 'apache.thermos.bin.thermos_runner',
> > > dependencies = [
> > > # Notice that we depend only on the single private target from this
> > > BUILD file here.
> > > ':_runner',
> > > ],
> > > )
> > >
> > > # The public library that everyone importing the runner symbols uses.
> > > # The test targets and any other dependent source code should depend on
> > > this.
> > > python_library(
> > > name = 'runner',
> > > dependencies = [
> > > # Again, notice that we depend only on the single private target
> from
> > > this BUILD file here.
> > > ':_runner',
> > > ],
> > > # We always provide a setup_py. This will cause any dependee
> libraries
> > to
> > > automatically reference this library
> > > # in their requirements.txt rather than copy the source files into
> > their
> > > sdist.
> > > provides = setup_py(
> > > # Conventionally named and versioned.
> > > name = 'apache.thermos.runner',
> > > version = open(os.path.join(get_buildroot(),
> > > '.auroraversion')).read().strip().upper(),
> > > ).with_binaries({
> > > # Every binary in this file should also be repeated here.
> > > # Always use the dict-form of .with_binaries so that commands with
> > > dashes in their names are supported.
> > > # The console script name is always the same as the PEX with .pex
> > > stripped.
> > > 'thermos_runner': ':thermos_runner',
> > > }),
> > > )
> > > ```
> > >
> > > Let me know what you think, if y'all agree I'll prepare a patch
> shortly.
> > >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Kevin Sweeney
> @kts
>
