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Hi, |
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I wanted to try out the new and fabled TurboGears and found that it uses |
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the new python software distribution tool setuptools and is distributed |
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as python eggs. I can easily install it with setuptools/easy_setup, but |
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I wanted to make an ebuild for TurboGears, which is not just so with |
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setuptools and eggs. |
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I started making ebuilds for the dependencies, but it seems that |
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setuptools has a nasty habit of downloading dependencies for a package |
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if it hasn't been installed by setuptools. So when eg. the new SQLObject |
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0.7rc1 (which also uses setuptools) depends upon FormEncode (not to |
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mention depends upon setuptools) it does not care that I have already |
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emerged setuptools or FormEncode, it just downloads the egg for it and |
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installs it. |
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It seems that alot of python projects are starting to use |
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setuptools/easy_install/eggs, and granted, it is quite neat, but there |
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needs to figured out a way to handle installing these things through |
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Portage, or alot of new versions are going to be a pain to have |
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installed. |
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How should Portage handle this? |
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I was thinking that maybe hacking up a Gentoo specific version of |
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setuptools that would make it work together with Portage or something |
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like that, but it seems a bit un-gentoo-like. |
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A different approach could be to grab the .egg files and manually |
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install them in the ebuilds, which wouldn't be a problem for pure-python |
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packages, but would suck for packages with c-extensions included, since |
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some might end bound to a specific subset of archs. |
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Instead of me just blindly fumbling in the blind for a way to get |
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ebuilds for TurboGears and it's assorted dependencies, I thought it |
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would be better to get some official guidelines. |
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Some useful URLs: |
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http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/setuptools |
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http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/EasyInstall |
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http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/PythonEggs |
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