From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: DATACOM - Farina Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2015 10:31:50 -0300 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] python-colorama: new package In-Reply-To: <20150804105537.3a5e47f6@free-electrons.com> References: <1438634219-22000-1-git-send-email-farina@datacom.ind.br> <20150804105537.3a5e47f6@free-electrons.com> Message-ID: <55C0BEC6.8040207@datacom.ind.br> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hi Thomas, On 04-08-2015 05:55, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > Augusto, > > On Mon, 3 Aug 2015 17:36:59 -0300, Augusto Farina wrote: >> Colorama is a simple cross-platform colored terminal text in Python. >> >> Tested on a PowerPC e500v2 board. Host build support is also added in >> the package makefile, as python-jinja2, because we have third-party >> software that requires it (e.g. ARM mbed build-system). > > As usual, I'm a little bit reluctant to add host packages that are not > used by any other package in Buildroot, because it means they are never > tested. > I've heard this :) > Do you intend to submit some packages that will use > host-python-colorama? > At this specific moment, no. But we are analyzing the ARM mbed package, which are widely used libraries and tools for ARM microcontrollers, and makes use of host-python-colorama on its build-system. > Also, not your fault, but I must say it's a bit odd for a build-system > to have a mandatory dependency on something that allows to colorize the > terminal output :) > I agree with you. But we are trying not to keep recipes of open-source packages in our repository, and I just thought this might be useful to someone else. Cheers, -- Augusto Farina DATACOM / R&D - Access www.datacom.ind.br