C API include files
Hi,
I am the maintainer of the astropy package [1], and there the topic was
brought up what to do with header files for the C API [2]. The package
provides a C API for one sub-package, astropy.wcs. In the moment, its
header files are just installed under
/usr/share/pyshared/astropy/wcs/include/ (Python2)
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/astropy/wcs/include/ (Python3)
which is not optimal since they cannot be included without an explicite
-I option to the C preprocessor. One could just provide a symlink from
/usr/include/astropy; however this leads to some problems:
* How to distinguish between python2 and python3? I guess that under
python3, the symlink should go from /usr/include/python3.3(m|dm)/,
like on numpy?
* The header files actually include header files from another package
(wcslib-dev). Since astropy is under active development, I expect that
these dependencies grow up in future, and it is probably not ideal
that an end-user python package depends on a number of -dev packages.
Would you recommend to create python(?:3)-astropy-dev packages here
that just contain the header files and their dependencies?
Are there rules on how to handle header files bundled with a python
package? I couldn't find anything for this in the Python policy, maybe
it is worth to put a paragraph there?
Best regards
Ole
[1] http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/python-astropy.html
http://www.astropy.org
[2] https://github.com/astropy/astropy/issues/1868
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