Python SIG

[Stanley A. Klein]

I think the issue of Python distutils/setuptools is important.  I posted a
note to the Python Distutils SIG asking if there was any way I could do an
RPN package (using bdist_rpm) with results going to my usual rpmbuild
directory tree instead of being placed in the same directory tree as the
sources and setup.py.  I didn't get a response.

Meanwhile, everything seems to be eggs and easy_install that conflict with
the overall system management aspects (and Linux Standards Base aspects)
of RPM.

I think that any changes to fix the Python distutils/setuptools for RPMs
will probably need to originate in the Fedora community.


Stan Klein


On Thu, March 18, 2010 8:00 am, David Malcolm <dmalcolm at redhat.com> wrote:

> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:36:35 -0400
> From: David Malcolm <dmalcolm at redhat.com>
> Subject: Python SIG
> To: Fedora Python SIG <python-devel at lists.fedoraproject.org>
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>
> I noticed that there's an effort to better organize the various Special
> Interest Groups in Fedora:
> https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-engineering-services/ticket/2
>
> I noticed that although https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Python
> had "[[Category:Language-specific SIGs]]" we didn't have:
> "[[Category:SIGs]]" and so we weren't showing anywhere on that page.
>
> I've fixed this, and the page is now at least showing on the list at the
> bottom of:
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:SIGs
>
> However, we're not in the hand-written list on that page, and I feel
> that we should be (hey, Ruby gets a mention, why can't we :) )
>
> Any ideas what the summary info for the SIG should be?  At the risk of
> plagiarism, Ruby's says:
> "A SIG for people who are interested in improving the state of Ruby in
> Fedora. This includes packaging Ruby libraries and applications, setting
> and improving standards for packaging them as RPM's and maintaining Ruby
> packages for Fedora."
>
> and that might be a good first start, but I'd also include the runtime
> as well as libraries and applications - I don't want people to feel that
> the runtime is somehow sacrosanct (just more care required!).
>
> How about this:
> "A SIG for people who are interested in Python on Fedora. This includes
> packaging and optimizing the various Python 2 and Python 3 runtimes
> (CPython, Jython), packaging libraries and applications, setting and
> improving standards for packaging them as RPM's and maintaining Python
> packages for Fedora."
> (somewhat copied from Ruby)
>
> I think the various questions on the F-E-S ticket are good ones.  I'm
> willing to do some work towards some of that ticket, but any help would
> be welcome.
>
> Thoughts?
> Dave
>