Re: [gentoo-dev] New eclass for Python

[Krzysztof Pawlik]

On 29/02/12 08:49, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote:
> On 2/28/12 10:13 PM, Krzysztof Pawlik wrote:
>> Highlights:
>>  - <400 lines of code including documentation
>>  - should work for >95% of packages (my educated guess)
>>  - did I mention it's *SIMPLE*?
>>  - easy to maintain & read so it's also easy to use
>
> This is awesome! Compare that to over 3000 LOC of python.eclass. :)

Count distutils.eclass too:

$ wc -l python-distutils-ng.eclass python.eclass distutils.eclass
   364 python-distutils-ng.eclass
  3168 python.eclass
   592 distutils.eclass

>> Important thing: I'm not aiming at having 100% functionality of current
>> python.eclass+distutils.eclass in the new one, I think that simplicity is more
>> important that supporting every possible, obscure case that's out there.
>
> Exactly.
>
>> 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(!!)).
>
> I second this so much (didn't review the eclass in detail, but it's
> obviously better than python.eclass).

Thank you :)

> What's the plan to retire python.eclass?

I'm not entirely sure - there's no pressure to migrate off it, both can coexist
happily. I don't think it can be retired until be have all functionality from
python.eclass+distutils.eclass somewhere (especially tests!).

If the package is distutils-based then migration should be pretty painless and
new packages (or version/revision bumps) can start using it as soon as it hits
portage.

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