-------------------------------------------- On Sat, 9/6/14, Johannes Löthberg <johannes@kyriasis.com> wrote: Subject: Re: [aur-general] AUR Best Practice for New Package Upload To: "Discussion about the Arch User Repository (AUR)" <aur-general@archlinux.org> Date: Saturday, September 6, 2014, 1:03 PM On 06 Sep 2014, at 12:06, stef <stef_204@yahoo.com> wrote:
1) the main script which is CLI (available for python2 and/or python3)
2) a GTK+ GUI (optional) for python2
3) the GTK+ GUI (optional) for python3
I use the GTK+GUI for
use python2.
Question 1):
The program is small (approx 250kb only) and my tendency would be to just do the one package with all 3 components which users will then use as they see fit, CLI only or GUI, etc. This would allow me to
python3 on my box but perhaps some users might want (or have to) maintain only one package for this program.
Is only one package OK
Question 2) I just basically downloaded the source tarball, extracted it to /opt and am running it from there.
My idea is to achieve
with the AUR community? You shouldn’t mix python2 and 3. Make it a split package. the same with PKGBUILD, following proper protocol, etc.
Is “installing”
(extracting dir structure) to /opt a problem? Don’t do that, it’s very ewwy. Read up on how and where python packages are normally packaged. Or actually, read up on setuptools and write a setup.py that you can use in the PKGBUILD. -------------------- I will consider only using the python3 package. If want to offer python2 as well, will make it a split package. As far as the location of the install, whether to optify it or not, I will look at this further: <https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Python_Package_Guidelines> I guess I can ask the developer to write a setup.py file that can/will be used to install the package; I'm not sure I want to do this myself. Lastly, what about splitting CLI only package from GUI? Can I make only one package or is it advisable to dp one package for each? This would result in the actual program (CLI) in one package and the GUI on top of it in a different package. It's more work to maintain 2 packages so is it necessary or advisable or can I stick to a single package? Thanks.