[aur-general] Python packaging: to build or not to build (Re: Review request for 3 related PKGBUILDs)

[Eli Schwartz]

On 02/14/2017 07:44 PM, Bruno Pagani wrote:
> So, if I understand things well, python{,2} setup.py build should do the
> same thing for most package, and any one of the two could be used to
> then package the two versions? So this would work:
> build() {
>     python setup.py build
> }
> package_python-lib() {
>     python setup.py install --root="$pkgdir" --optimize=1 --skip-build
> }
> package_python2-lib(){
>     python2 setup.py install --root="$pkgdir" --optimize=1 --skip-build
> }
> 
> Then I would be more in favour of splitting build and package.
> 
> Thanks for your input,
> Bruno

Basically, yeah. Run the setuptools PKGBUILD and diff the srcdir --
you'll see they are practically byte-identical. There is a small handful
of 2/3 references, but setuptools rewrote those in the first place, and
other than that there's just __pycache__ vs side-by-side bytecode.

https://paste.xinu.at/aY2BmFZryz/

-- 
Eli Schwartz

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