[Buildroot] [RFC] pkg-python infrastructure

Ryan Barnett rjbarnet at rockwellcollins.com
Fri Oct 25 15:52:54 UTC 2013


A while back (about a week ago) - Gustavoz Zacarias, Thomas Petazzoni, and 
myself - were having a conversation on the IRC about creating a new 
package type for handling the builds of python packages. If I recall 
correctly, this is what we discussed. I would like to just have some 
record on how we want to handle building python packages.

Thomas P and Gustavoz - please correct/expand on any points that I may be 
missing.

pkg-python infrastructure
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 * Would add a new makefile defining generic build steps for python 
packages under package/pkg-python.mk.

 * Would support building for Python 2.7 and Python 3+.

 * Would ensure that cross-compiling of python packages is handled 
correctly.

 * Would support setup.py and setuptools packages.

I don't know when I will be able to get around to doing this but I would 
like to at least capture the points that were made. Also anyone else is 
welcome to pick up this work too :)

Thanks,
-Ryan

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