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 <dmalc...@redhat.com> wrote: > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:36:35 -0400 > From: David Malcolm <dmalc...@redhat.com> > Subject: Python SIG > To: Fedora Python SIG <python-de...@lists.fedoraproject.org> > Message-ID: <1268854595.30012.2147.ca...@brick> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > 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 > _______________________________________________ python-devel mailing list python-de...@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/python-devel
