From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1S2oRu-0008GO-2X for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 18:40:26 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F4197E0913; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 18:40:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27F06E0692 for ; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 18:39:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pz0-f52.google.com (mail-pz0-f52.google.com [209.85.210.52]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: floppym) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A810364194 for ; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 18:39:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: by dado14 with SMTP id o14so10576450dad.11 for ; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 10:39:26 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of floppym@gentoo.org designates 10.68.221.35 as permitted sender) client-ip=10.68.221.35; Authentication-Results: mr.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of floppym@gentoo.org designates 10.68.221.35 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=floppym@gentoo.org Received: from mr.google.com ([10.68.221.35]) by 10.68.221.35 with SMTP id qb3mr9789363pbc.112.1330540766501 (num_hops = 1); Wed, 29 Feb 2012 10:39:26 -0800 (PST) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.68.221.35 with SMTP id qb3mr8202040pbc.112.1330540766443; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 10:39:26 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.68.73.162 with HTTP; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 10:39:26 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4F4E62D5.7020801@gentoo.org> References: <4F4D4380.9070909@gentoo.org> <4F4E62D5.7020801@gentoo.org> Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 13:39:26 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-python] New eclass for Python From: Mike Gilbert To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: a6c409f1-3d2e-40f1-a5df-6df530519515 X-Archives-Hash: 2e7bc74050ef81db2721841e81b0022d On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Krzysztof Pawlik wrote: > On 29/02/12 09:11, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 22:13, Krzysztof Pawlik wrote: >>> 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(!!)). >> >> Can we perhaps just name it python-r2 rather than python-distutils-ng? >> Seems descriptive enough... > > Yes and no - it's named python-distutils because main focus was this > combination, it can work for other cases too, it's just that it combines > functionality from both old eclasses. Besides I like the name, but I can be > convinced to name it python-r2.eclass. > The distutils-based packages are a good starting point. The name is a good fit for that. Looking forward, I think it might make sense to move some of the functionality to a "core" python eclass that would just be for utility functions -- similar to the python/distutils split we have now. This would be used in ebuilds that are not primarily based around distutils (setup.py).