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From: "Joseph S. Barrera III" <j...@barrera.org>
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 22:19:29 -0800
To: Friends of Rohit Khare <f...@xent.com>
Subject: [FoRK] Raise your hand if you rate minimum LOC as an important
metric
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Reply-To: j...@barrera.org, Friends of Rohit Khare <f...@xent.com>
I'm currently trying to replace a (piece of build software) that requires >
100 KLOC C++/rpm spec files/etc with something that uses <= 1 KLOC python.
I'm getting intense opposition from (person*) because my solution does not
use "existing best practices" but is instead home-grown.
But the so-called "existing best practices" include a 40 KLOC port of apt
(debian tool) to RPM/RHEL (?!) which has not been supported for many
years.
It also includes many lines of rpm *.spec files. The previous developer
likes to claim that since he is using RPM, he gets relocatability for
free. But he doesn't use %post (which would be invoked at install, after
build), and everything he does at build-time, I already do as well.
My build system has lines like (and this includes test of functionality,
hence the occasional second parameter which indicates a non-obvious python
import):
env.build_python('virtualenv')
env.build_python('kerberos')
env.build_python('paramiko')
env.build_python('poster')
env.build_python('urllib2_kerberos', 'urllib2')
env.build_python('pyfits')
# (these are the complicated cases)
b = package(env, 'tables')
if not b.installed():
b.extract()
hdf5_dir = b.get_absolute_install_dir('hdf5')
b.setup_build('--hdf5=%s' % hdf5_dir)
b.setup_install('--hdf5=%s' % hdf5_dir)
b.check_import()
b = package(env, 'sip')
if not b.installed():
b.extract()
b.configure_py('-e %s/include/%s' % (b.absolute_install_dir, env.python))
b.make()
b.make_install()
b.check_import()
The typical spec file in the old system is ~100 lines. Many of my build
lines are single-liners and the rest are ~ 10 lines.
The RPM proponent is very vocal and has great political advantage.
Any advice or help?
Thanks,
- Joe
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