Hi Marc, On Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:57:30 +0100, Marc Weber <marco-owe...@gmx.de> wrote: > > Hi Florian Friesdorf, > > I'd like to remind you that I did some alternative work which you may > want to have a look at. Eg I solved the pygtk issue in a different way.
I had a look at it and can tell that it is a different approach. I'd like to have simple nix expressions for every package so people can customize them if needed and the nix-expression-generator can then be taught to incorporate those customizations. > A also did some initial work trying to package all python packages on > PyPi for nixpkgs. The problems I ran into was the lack of > - which python version does a package need > - dependency information (without running python code) It would be great to have your know-how about that! Would you be interested to help with another approach and join us for at least a couple of days? > Thus it looks to me that you will have to download the packages to > query the install scripts for dependency information. http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyPiXmlRpc claims that this is available via pypi, but I have not tried to query that info yet. However, I see a whitelist of packages we want to package, we download them, checksum, generate EGG_INFO and create an expression for each package version we want to include. > I'll be interested in how your result will look like - and how much > effort it'll be to maintain it. What is needed for maintenance with your approach? > But of course you know this all better than me. So I wish you success > with your project - keep posting about it. Will do! regards florian -- Florian Friesdorf <f...@chaoflow.net> GPG FPR: 7A13 5EEE 1421 9FC2 108D BAAF 38F8 99A3 0C45 F083 Jabber/XMPP: f...@chaoflow.net IRC: chaoflow on freenode,ircnet,blafasel,OFTC
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