Python SIG

[Toshio Kuratomi]

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 03:11:15PM +0000, José Matos wrote:
> On Wednesday 17 March 2010 19:36:35 David Malcolm wrote:
> > 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 find this a good start (just as you do). :-)
> 
> Just to add to the discussion my main interest in this SIG is on scientific 
> and/or educational python packages.
> 
> What we see, in terms of packaging, in projects like sage 
> http://www.sagemath.org/ or in other projects (proprietary) like EPD 
> (Enthought Python distribution) or Python(x,y) is that put everything under 
> the sun on those packages.
> 
> It would be nice to have the free parts in Fedora...
> 
> Such as the above statement is written I see these goals there.
>
WRT enthought, they're very interested in getting their software packaged
for individual distributions but don't have any manpower or inhouse
knowledge on how to do that.  If someone were to start working on those
packages, I could pass along contact information and we could potentially
have help from them on changing their packaging over time to address our
needs.

-Toshio
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