Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-python] New eclass for Python

[Krzysztof Pawlik <nelchael@gentoo.org>]

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On 29/02/12 06:13, Mike Gilbert wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 4:13 PM, Krzysztof Pawlik <nelchael@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> After some work during weekend on Python packages I've decided to start a
>> rewrite of Python/distutils eclass for installing Python packages. My main goal
>> was simplicity and functionality similar to ruby-ng.eclass (thanks Ruby team for
>> your great work!). Python team members already contributed comments and
>> suggestions and helped me to make the eclass better, thank you!
>>
>> Highlights:
>>  - *SIMPLE*next
>>  - uses PYTHON_TARGETS use-expand (no more python-updater, whoooo!)
>>  - EAPI4 required, uses REQUIRED_USE
>>  - <400 lines of code including documentation
>>  - should work for >95% of packages (my educated guess)
>>  - did I mention it's *SIMPLE*?
>>  - easy to maintain & read so it's also easy to use
>>
>> Important thing: I'm not aiming at having 100% functionality of current
>> python.eclass+distutils.eclass in the new one, I think that simplicity is more
>> important that supporting every possible, obscure case that's out there.
>>
>> I'm attaching the eclass itself and two ebuilds using it, code is also available
>> in my overlay at http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=dev/nelchael.git;a=summary
>>
>> If there are no objections then during the weekend (March 3, 4) I will add this
>> to portage (after finishing remaining TODO items, PyPy requires 4G of RAM(!!)).
>>
>> --
>> Krzysztof Pawlik  <nelchael at gentoo.org>  key id: 0xF6A80E46
>> desktop-misc, java, vim, kernel, python, apache...
>>
> 
> # Phase function: src_unpack
> python-distutils-ng_src_unpack() {
> 	[[ "${PYTHON_OPTIONAL}" = "yes" ]] && { use python || return; }
> 
> 	if type python_unpack &> /dev/null; then
> 		# This should not run anything specific to any single Python
> 		# implementation, keep it generic:
> 		python_unpack_all
> 	else
> 		[[ -n ${A} ]] && unpack ${A}
> 	fi
> }
> 
> I think you meant to write "if type python_unpack_all".
> 
> More to the point, I don't actually understand why this function
> exists. It doesn't actually do anything that default_src_unpack does
> not do already. Exporting it will clobber any vcs eclasses if the
> inherit order is wrong.

You're right, I've killed the python-distutils-ng_src_unpack() function.

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Krzysztof Pawlik  <nelchael at gentoo.org>  key id: 0xF6A80E46
desktop-misc, java, vim, kernel, python, apache...


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