[Buildroot] [RFC] pkg-python infrastructure

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

Hello all,

On Fri, 25 Oct 2013 10:52:54 -0500, Ryan Barnett wrote:

> 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.

Following this discussion, I've started working on this. The current
status of the work is available at:

 http://git.free-electrons.com/users/thomas-petazzoni/buildroot/log/?h=python-pkg

The most important commit is:

 http://git.free-electrons.com/users/thomas-petazzoni/buildroot/commit/?h=python-pkg&id=5880956ce258b15887049ca5850007395cfd1857

It works quite well with distutils, there are a some issues with
setuptools packages: I'll probably need to distinguish them. There are
also a few more Python packages that have not been converted.

I've limited myself to support Python 2.x for the moment: the idea is
that once all Python packages have been converted to the
infrastructure, it will be easier to extend it to also cover Python 3.x.

Best regards,

Thomas
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