Hi, I currently use jcc to wrap a Java library for use in Python - it works great.
The project I'm working on is moving it's package management from traditional pip installs to Guix: https://guix.gnu.org/ Guix handles python packages pretty well, and I have jcc running nicely on there. The problem I have is that Guix expects as an input a Python source repo, but the jcc outputs a binary wheel. What I'd like is for jcc to put together a source package, complete with jars, C/C++, and python wrapper and a setup.py that is called to generate the wheel. But to stop short of generating the wheel for me. I've had a look at the gnerated build directory - I could see the C/C++ source and jars, but there didn't seem to be a setup.py to trigger an install? Such a directory could be then be fed into Guix who would happily build the package and install it using the standard setup.py provided. As a crude workaround I can try to unzip the contents of the produced wheel and stick the contents into a repo, with a new setup.py, and MANIFEST.in file that would simply copy across the jars and the previously build C/C++ library. However having the setup.py building the library and installing it is a more elegant solution. Any ideas? Thanks, Phil.
