From: Cyril Roelandt <tipecaml@gmail.com>
To: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: python general question (setup.py)
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2016 23:31:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56F5BC54.2090007@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87oaa26wsz.fsf@grrlz.net>
On 03/25/2016 11:02 PM, Nils Gillmann wrote:
> I have a question on python.
> My theory is that this is true:
> If I write a setup.py and contribute it to a project because I
> want to make an "easier"[1] install in Guix and elsewhere,
> I feed the "one packagemanager per language" thing.
>
Not really. You can use setup.py without pip. Think of setup.py as some
kind of Makefile for Python.
> Is setup.py the equivalent of a package manager in python or does
> it serve more purposes? I would like to know if I want to follow
> my current task in either fixing the setup.py I started for the
> upcoming bitmessage 0.6 release or if I want to write a Guix
> package without using out python-setup-tools which require
> setup.py to be present.
>
No, the equivalent of a package manager is "pip", which uses packages
from pypi.python.org.
If we are talking about
https://bitmessage.org/wiki/Compiling_instructions , I must say the
installation instructions are a bit weird for a Python project.
Cyril.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-25 22:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-25 22:02 python general question (setup.py) Nils Gillmann
2016-03-25 22:31 ` Cyril Roelandt [this message]
2016-03-26 1:03 ` Nils Gillmann
2016-03-25 22:39 ` Danny Milosavljevic
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