Hello, I just saw another topic posted, https://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2014-October/025140.html , which raises question similar to which I had in mind for some time. To not hijack that thread, I open a new one, but comment to a message from that thread, https://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2014-October/025142.html
So, my case: support different platforms in one distribution package. To give more concrete example, let it be some module implemented using ctypes, with completely different implementation for Linux, MacOSX, and Windows. I'd also like to avoid installing files unneeded for particular platform (a usecase applies to MicroPython http://micropython.org/ , where there can be simply not enough storage space to install cruft). On Mon, 27 Oct 2014 14:04:38 +0000 Paul Moore <p.f.moore@...> wrote: > For a source distribution, you could play clever games in setup.py to > put the right file in place, with the right name. But that's messy and > it means that if you distribute wheels (not that there's much point in > doing so) you need separate wheels for 2.6-, 2.7 and 3.3+. Ok, so are there guidelines, best practices or at least example(s) how to do that? I pretty much would like to avoid inventing my own "clever games" to achieve that. > Alternatively, you could distribute all 3 files, as > > dbf > \ > - __init__.py > - dbf_26.py > - dbf_27.py > - dbf_3.py > > Then in __init__.py do > > if sys.version_info[0] == 3: > from .dbf_3 import * > elif sys.version_info[:2] == (2, 7): > from .dbf_27 import * > else > from .dbf_26 import * For our MicroPython case, we would like to avoid this due to aforementioned reasons. We could probably post-process installation dir after pip to remove unneeded files, but that sounds like hack - we'd rather do it fully on distribution package level, and target to install just a single source file per module, and avoid dispatcher like above (again, for efficiency reasons). There's also another issue - of supporting "cross-installs". Not all MicroPython targets support running pip natively, so it instead runs on a host computer, but would need be instructed to select source variants for a particular target platform. Any hints/pointers on how to achieve this - preferrably in "standard" way - are appreciated! -- Best regards, Paul mailto:[email protected] _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
