[Buildroot] [RFC] python bindings handling

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>]

Le Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:36:22 +0100,
Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@uclibc.org> a ?crit :

>  Thomas> I think I would say 2. It's not because you have Python
>  Thomas> *and* you have some library that you necessarily want the
>  Thomas> binding for that lib. Just make those bindings new Python
>  Thomas> packages (in the new Python menu you created!) and that
>  Thomas> should be good. No?
> 
> So you're suggesting to put those BR2_ options in seperate Config.in
> files and source them under the Python menu? Hmm, I'm not sure I like
> that. Aren't most python bindings very small compared to python / the
> libraries they provide bindings for? If so, I think option 1 is nicer
> (similar to how we E.G. handle optional openssl support in lots of
> places).

Ah, then I think I misunderstood. I think those Python bindings were a
*separate* package from the C/C++ library for which the binding is
designed, i.e that you had two packages:

	libfoo
	python-libfoo

In which case I think python-libfoo (which is a separate package)
should go in the Python section.

In the other case (i.e, the binding is directly an option in the C/C++
library itself and both are a single package in terms of upstream
source), then yeah, option 1/ would probably be good.

Thomas
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