Re: Request for Review - Nuitka the Python compiler

[Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>]

* Paul Boddie <paul@boddie.org.uk>, 2011-11-12, 15:08:
> > c) I renamed "Nuitka.py" to a "nuitka" binary. I am keeping the 
> > drop-in replacement as "Python" though.
> I don't think it's wise to call it "Python",

Agreed, this is bad idea.

> If Nuitka aims to be a Python alternative, shouldn't it use the 
> alternatives mechanism in Debian?

We don't use alternatives for Python interpreters, for good reasons.

> I didn't know there was an --install-layout option to setup.py, but I 
> haven't been following distutils so closely of late.

--install-layout is a Debian-specific option.

> > Package: nuitka
> > Architecture: all
> > Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${python:Depends}, g++-4.6 (>= 4.6.1), scons
> > (>=2.1.0-1)
> > Description: Python compiler with full language support and CPython compa
> > X-Python-Version: >= 2.6
> >
> > The general goal would be to make it back portable, that is why I am 
> > using Python 2.6 as my upstream required minimum. I hope control is 
> > the right spot, the tutorial didn't make that so clear.
> >
> > For build depends I am not so sure.
>
> I was told to drop X-Python-Version

Why?

> I've always worked with the debian directory's files directly, and with 
> recent dh_python developments, the tricky parts like the rules file 
> becomes almost trivial;

I can assure you that simplicity of your debian/rules has nothing to do 
with dh_python (or dh_python2, which you maybe meant) development.

> I have an override in the rules file for the man page:
>
> override_dh_auto_clean:
>        rm -f debian/shedskin.1
>        dh_auto_clean

dh_clean reads filenames from debian/clean. You could add 
"debian/shedskin.1" to the file, and then get rid of this override.

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Jakub Wilk