From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas De Schampheleire Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 18:46:35 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [RFC] pkg-python infrastructure In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net 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. > >pkg-python infrastructure >------------------------- > > * 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 :) FWIW, I'm definitely in favor of such an infrastructure... Best regards, Thomas