Re: packaging pyreport
Hi Yaroslav and Jean,
Sorry for the slow answer: I just came out of a score of deadlines and
took a break from my computer.
I personally believe that the IPython notebook, however great it might
be, does not nullify the interest of pyreport. First, pyreport does not
require any specific syntax or interface: it works on standard Python
files. Second, it is very lightweight, whereas nowadays IPython is a
biggish dependency.
That said, I do way too many things, and I had decided that I stopped
maintaining pyreport. It's a question of priorities, while it hurts me to
see it die, I don't have time to maintain everything that I would like.
Thus, I would be _very_ happy to see someone picking it up. It doesn't
really need to be a fork in the sens that I am perfectly willing to give
control of the github repo. The webpage is unfortunately hosted on my
personal webpage, but I can assist in moving it to another location (I
think that packages.python.org would be a good idea) and I can insert
redirections on the current webpage.
I would be thrilled to see this happening. I think that such a change of
maintainer should happen before a Debian package is considered: in the
current situation, I would not push people to use pyreport, as its future
is uncertain.
Thanks for the interest,
Gael
On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 11:47:41AM -0500, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:
> Hi Jean, Hi Gael,
> I would recommend first to check with Gael (CCed) on what is his plans
> toward pyreport... with the availability of ipython notebook I think he
> might not be considering developing/maintaining pyreport any further.
> Gael?
> > Hi,
> > I have been using pyreport for some time now and I would like it to be
> > a part of Debian.
> > As the official website says:
> > "pyreport is a program that runs a python script and captures its
> > output, compiling it to a pretty report in a pdf or an html file. It
> > can display the output embedded in the code that produced it and can
> > process special comments (literate comments) according to markup
> > languages ( rst or LaTeX ) to compile a very readable document."
> > You can find a complete description and some examples at:
> > http://gael-varoquaux.info/computers/pyreport/
> > I would like to package this application but I do not have any skills
> > in the packaging process yet. So if some people would be ready to give
> > some advices, help or just write that they are currently using
> > pyreport, that would be very nice !
> > I will send an ITP email and begin to create the package very soon.
> > Thanks,
> > Jean Felder
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Gael Varoquaux
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