Re: Blends and (astronomy) meta-packages
Hi Ole,
On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 02:32:29PM +0200, Ole Streicher wrote:
> ...
>
> Therefore, the astronomy python modules are not strictly "development",
> but they are in fact extensions to our analysis shells, and it makes
> sense to have them separated (answering the question "which packages can
> I use in my IPython notebook?")
Thanks for the explanation.
> > There are tools (package blends-dev) that turn a simple tasks file into
> > a metapackage. If you have a manually craftet metapackage you can
> > probably decide to copy the Depends/Recommends and Suggests into a tasks
> > file if you want to turn it into a Blends task. However, my
> > recommendation to start right now with the design of *some* Astronomy
> > tasks (not only for Python applications) remains and I recommend to
> > study the design of other Blends tasks.
>
> Can I use the blends-dev tasks without actually creating a blends task
> but a "normal" metapackage?
Before I can answer this question please define "normal metapackage".
Kind regards
Andreas.
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