fedora wikipage Packaging:Python

[Nick Coghlan]

On 11 June 2015 at 14:05, Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs at math.uh.edu> wrote:
>>>>>> "NC" == Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> writes:
>
> NC> I agree it doesn't make sense to include that information in the
> NC> Python packaging guidelines, but I think it does make sense to
> NC> provide such recommendations *somewhere*.
>
> I obviously agree, given that I wrote that I would try and draft
> something.  Just haven't had much time yet.

Ah, my apologies - I missed that sentence when I read your reply.

> NC> Along those lines, it would potentially be useful to have a Python
> NC> specific packaging *tutorial* on the wiki an an alternative to the
> NC> generic https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_an_RPM_package
> NC> that assumes folks will be doing everything by hand.
>
> That's certainly not a bad idea.  It's a wiki; feel free to run with it.

My own packaging experience is limited enough that I don't consider
myself qualified to provide advice on how best to go about it - my
involvement in Fedora's Python policy development has been from an
upstream perspective rather than a Fedora perspective.

> NC> For Python, it would make more sense to start with a tool like
> NC> Slavek's pyp2rpm to generate the initial SPEC file:
> NC> https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyp2rpm
>
> The problem with doing any of this now is that the python guidelines are
> in significant flux and will hopefully emerge in a much cleaner state
> with various convenience macros to handle the bulk of the heavy lifting.

Yeah, that makes sense. Once it settles down again and pyp2rpm can be
updated accordingly, then a simpler getting started guide will be
easier to write and maintain.

Cheers,
Nick.

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