From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Brian May <brian@linuxpenguins.xyz>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: New Python bindings (was: Crash with Python bindings)
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2018 20:13:15 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87in9f94l0.fsf@tethera.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878tabg73f.fsf@silverfish.pri>
Brian May <brian@linuxpenguins.xyz> writes:
> David Bremner <david@tethera.net> writes:
>
>> We tried this before, and it didn't work out very well. Bindings tend to
>> depend on a strict matching of versions with the underlying library, so
>> distributing them seperately doesn't really make sense to me. You need
>> the underlying libraries, so why not get the matching bindings from the
>> same place? We found that the situation was exacerbated by the fact
>> that no-one cared about updating the bindings on pypi.
>
[...]
> Unfortunately, I think many people will not even consider using a python
> library unless it has up-to-date bindings available on pypi.
That's not an itch I personally have, but as I said in the next
paragraph, if someone want's to take on the project of maintaining a
wheel, we'll render the same kind of assistance we give *BSD/Linux/MacOS
package maintainers. We're happy to look at (reasonable) things we can
do to make downstream projects life easier.
d
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-03-28 23:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-12 9:41 Crash with Python bindings Konrad Hinsen
2016-01-12 13:11 ` David Bremner
2016-01-12 14:21 ` Konrad Hinsen
2016-01-12 15:26 ` David Bremner
2016-01-12 19:03 ` David Bremner
2016-01-12 19:13 ` Binding access to ~/.notmuch-config (was: Crash with Python bindings) W. Trevor King
2016-01-13 11:25 ` Binding access to ~/.notmuch-config Konrad Hinsen
2016-01-13 12:25 ` David Bremner
2016-01-13 17:23 ` W. Trevor King
[not found] ` <20160112102329.4269.20741@thinkbox.jade-hamburg.de>
2016-01-12 14:23 ` Crash with Python bindings Konrad Hinsen
2016-01-12 18:51 ` W. Trevor King
2018-03-16 11:59 ` David Bremner
2018-03-16 12:12 ` Justus Winter
2018-03-16 18:30 ` Floris Bruynooghe
2018-03-16 22:40 ` Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2018-03-18 8:01 ` Floris Bruynooghe
2018-03-21 10:16 ` New Python bindings (was: Crash with Python bindings) Justus Winter
2018-03-25 17:40 ` pytest integration for the notmuch test suite David Bremner
2018-03-25 17:40 ` [PATCH 1/3] configure: check for pytest binary David Bremner
2018-03-26 20:55 ` Floris Bruynooghe
2018-03-25 17:40 ` [PATCH 2/3] test: add new test_expect_pytest_success David Bremner
2018-03-25 17:40 ` [PATCH 3/3] test: add example test using pytest David Bremner
2018-03-25 19:14 ` pytest integration for the notmuch test suite Tomi Ollila
2018-03-26 11:31 ` David Bremner
2018-03-26 21:01 ` Floris Bruynooghe
2018-03-26 21:25 ` David Bremner
2018-03-26 20:47 ` New Python bindings (was: Crash with Python bindings) Floris Bruynooghe
2018-03-27 22:29 ` New Python bindings Justus Winter
2018-03-28 22:07 ` Floris Bruynooghe
2018-03-28 7:20 ` New Python bindings (was: Crash with Python bindings) Brian May
2018-03-28 13:42 ` David Bremner
2018-03-28 22:15 ` Floris Bruynooghe
2018-03-28 22:37 ` Brian May
2018-03-28 23:13 ` David Bremner [this message]
2018-04-04 22:37 ` Brian May
2018-04-05 1:09 ` Pypi David Bremner
2018-03-28 22:10 ` New Python bindings (was: Crash with Python bindings) Floris Bruynooghe
2016-01-12 18:08 ` Crash with Python bindings W. Trevor King
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