[Twisted-Python] Twisted Plugins - Implementation Discussion

Mikhail Terekhov termim at gmail.com
Thu Apr 21 21:13:11 MDT 2011


On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 9:01 PM, David <david at silveregg.co.jp> wrote:

> On 04/22/2011 06:21 AM, anatoly techtonik wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 4:48 AM, Kevin Horn<kevin.horn at gmail.com>
>  wrote:
> >>
> >> cluster****.  So he rewrote distutils with an eye on keeping things nice
> for
> >> everyone.  Project managers, distro packagers, users installing
> software,
> >> etc.  This is distutils2.  In Python 3.3 and up it will be called
> >> "packaging".  Once people start using it, it will make a lot of the
> current
> >> packaging headaches in the Python world go away.
> >
> > Are you sure about that? Where is the list of stories it will solve
> > when people start using it, so I can check that my cases are covered
> > by distutils2 insurance plan?
>
> [OT]
> You can take a look at bento, which is my own response to the distutils
> issues we have in the scipy community (but I would expect twisted and
> most big python libraries to have similar issues):
>
> http://cournape.github.com/Bento/
>
> It is designed from the ground up with the idea of reliable
> customization and complex build supports. It can already build numpy and
> scipy with a near 50 % reduction in LOC compared to our setup.py, and
> more reliably thanks to using a real build tool in the backend (waf, but
> you can add support for a different one if you want).
>
> That is nice indeed. But why to invent yet another scripting language for
info files or good old python is not good enough?
BTW are bento and waf sources included in that 50% reduction?


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Mikhail Terekhov
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