Miro Hrončok <mhron...@redhat.com> writes:

> On 28. 06. 21 22:25, Dan Čermák wrote:
>> Hi Miro,
>> 
>> Miro Hrončok <mhron...@redhat.com> writes:
>> 
>>> Hello Python RPM packagers,
>>>
>>> based on some discussion in the "F35 Change: Python Packaging Guidelines
>>> overhaul (System-Wide Change proposal)" thread [0], I've drafted a macro 
>>> that
>>> can help to test-import a Python module in %check when no other tests exist 
>>> or
>>> are when they cannot be executed during build [1].
>>>
>>> The semantics is quite simple:
>>>
>>>
>>>       %check
>>>       %py3_check_import mymodule mymodule.submodule
>>>
>>> ...
>> 
>> This looks pretty good imho. Would it somehow be possible for the macro
>> to automatically try to import the module name from the generated
>> python3.Ydist() provides? That would make the macro even more convenient
>> to use and reduce any potential user error further.
>
> Honestly, I'd rather not do that. People already confuse "module names" 
> (that's 
> what you import) with "Python package names" (that's what you install from 
> PyPI 
> or what's provided as python3.Ydist()). And while this would make the macro 
> slightly easier to use for the optimal case when those names are identical, 
> it 
> would only create more confusion when they are not.
>
> In the future, we could extend it to automatically import modules found in 
> the 
> %buidlroot, but now I'd rather provide a simple tool where the packager needs 
> to be explicit, than a very complex tool that does heuristics.

That makes sense & is probably the better approach initially. I have
honestly no idea what could be improved here, so this looks more than
fine by me :)


Cheers,

Dan
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