Notes from the python guidelines discussion at flock

[Nick Coghlan]

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On 08/21/2013 07:27 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 02:09:33AM -0400, Bohuslav Kabrda wrote:
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> Greetings everyone, we had a productive session at flock and
>>> actually covered everything that was in my email message about
>>> a potential agenda. Here's the notes:
>>> 
>>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Toshio/Flock2013_Python_Guidelines
>>>
>>
>>
>>> 
Thanks for posting this, Toshio. Few comments:
>> - The wheel proposal seems nice, although we should probably also
>> cover the case where upstream _only_ distributes wheel and not
>> tarball (shouldn't be a big deal).
>> 
> I'll have to look into this a bit.  I'm not certain that a wheel
> contains all the source.  I'm almost certain that it wouldn't fit
> under "preferred form of modification".  Depending on those, we
> might want to tell people tarballs, followed by source checkouts
> are prefered/okay.  Wheels might be third on the list or might be
> banned as a Source: line.

Wheels are a binary format from an upstream point of view. I certainly
wouldn't consider them a suitable input format for an SRPM.

The Python world has 3 source distribution formats:

- - raw tarball
- - VCS checkout
- - sdist

The difference between an sdist and a raw tarball is that the sdist
may be a filtered version of what's in the source repo. This may
happen if the repo contains additional files that aren't needed to
build and install the distribution. If an archive has a PKG-INFO file
at the root, it's likely an sdist, if it doesn't, it's likely a raw
tarball.

Cheers,
Nick.

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Nick Coghlan
Red Hat Infrastructure Engineering & Development, Brisbane

Testing Solutions Team Lead
Beaker Development Lead (http://beaker-project.org/)
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