Re: Bug#849050: ITP: python-graphviz -- Simple Python 3 interface for Graphviz
On December 22, 2016 2:33:23 AM EST, Diane Trout <diane@ghic.org> wrote:
>
>> This naming would be unacceptable. Python 3 package should be named
>> as
>> "python3-foobar", not "python-foobar".
>>
>> There are already packages called "python{,3}-pygraphviz" and you may
>> want to
>> take a look.
>
>The upstream source package name is graphviz and is hosted on pypi at
>https://pypi.python.org/pypi/graphviz
>
>Obviously that conflicts with the original C language package grapvhiz,
>so I thought python-graphviz was the best alternative. I'm open to
>other suggestions. pypi-graphviz?
>
>The binary package name would be python3-graphviz.
>
>And yes there is a pygraphviz, but that's a different package with a
>different API.
>
>But yes it is a bit silly there's so many different python graphviz
>apis.
>
>I'm guessing the reason the dask developers used the pypi graphviz is
>its pure python, unlike pygraphviz which is a C extension. But I'm not
>sure, I just tried to use the task visulaization and got an import
>error.
>
>dask uses the python graphviz library to generate plots like in this
>notebook.
>https://gist.github.com/mrocklin/b61f795004ec0a70e43de350e453e97e
>
>Diane
I think your original proposal is fine for the source package.
Scott K
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