Request for help packaging PyCharm for the Fedora Workstation

[Christian Schaller]

Hi everyone,
I am part of the Fedora Workstation working group and and one application I would love to
have included and easily available 
for the workstation is PyCharm (http://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/). 
It is probably the best Python IDE available currently and thus can be a great tool for
python developers on our platform. Especially with the rising importance of OpenStack I
would love it if the Fedora Workstation would be able to offer this application. It also
supports GTK3 module imports so it is a also great choice for desktop Python development.

Despite being a Python IDE it is written in Java, so I am asking if there are any
volunteers on this list willing to help with packaging
it. I exchanged some emails with Stanislav Ochonicky and Mikolaj Izdebski and they
suggested I send an email to this list requesting volunteers.

There are some licensing challenges with PyCharm as can be seen in this
bug tracker : http://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/PY-11008

But Stanislav had a quick look and it seems we should have most of the 
libraries covered already:
 javahelp - Fedora has javahelp2
 oromatcher - Fedora has jakarta-oro
 sqljet - packaged in Fedora
 svnkit - packaged in Fedora

Mikolaj has offered to help, but he doesn't want to be the sole maintainer, so I am
hoping to get some more volunteers here.
Myself and Kalev Lember are also both available to help anyway 
we can, and if someone is willing to work with us on the core packaging
we can handle creating appdata files etc., for PyCharm.

Sincerely,
Christian Schaller

[Mat Booth]

On 9 July 2014 10:15, Christian Schaller <cschalle(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:

>  Hi everyone,
>  I am part of the Fedora Workstation working group and and one application
>  I would love to have included and easily available
>  for the workstation is PyCharm (http://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/).
>  It is probably the best Python IDE available currently and thus can be a
>  great tool for python developers on our platform. Especially with the
>  rising importance of OpenStack I would love it if the Fedora Workstation
>  would be able to offer this application. It also supports GTK3 module
>  imports so it is a also great choice for desktop Python development.
>
>  Despite being a Python IDE it is written in Java, so I am asking if there
>  are any volunteers on this list willing to help with packaging
>  it. I exchanged some emails with Stanislav Ochonicky and Mikolaj Izdebski
>  and they suggested I send an email to this list requesting volunteers.
>
>  There are some licensing challenges with PyCharm as can be seen in this
>  bug tracker : http://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/PY-11008
>
>  But Stanislav had a quick look and it seems we should have most of the
>  libraries covered already:
>   javahelp - Fedora has javahelp2
>   oromatcher - Fedora has jakarta-oro
>   sqljet - packaged in Fedora
>   svnkit - packaged in Fedora
>
>  Mikolaj has offered to help, but he doesn't want to be the sole
>  maintainer, so I am hoping to get some more volunteers here.
>  Myself and Kalev Lember are also both available to help anyway
>  we can, and if someone is willing to work with us on the core packaging
>  we can handle creating appdata files etc., for PyCharm.
>
>  Sincerely,
>  Christian Schaller
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Is PyCharm based on IntelliJ ?

See http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/intellij-idea.git/ for the old
IntelliJ package that used to be in fedora. It was retired due to lack of
interest in maintaining it, but it might be a good (if outdated) starting
point if you wanted to build a PyCharm package.


-- 
Mat Booth
http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora

[Rahul Sundaram]

Hi


On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 6:06 AM, Mat Booth wrote:

>  Is PyCharm based on IntelliJ ?
>
>  See http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/intellij-idea.git/ for the old
>  IntelliJ package that used to be in fedora. It was retired due to lack of
>  interest in maintaining it, but it might be a good (if outdated) starting
>  point if you wanted to build a PyCharm package.
>  
I build a RPM package for myself a while back based on the spec in the
repository.  I will take a look at and see if this is suitable for re-review

Rahul