Dear fedora-python-devel, I noticed a problem with pyp2rpm tool: it's a great tool, but it's hardly visible and new python packager can easily miss it. The fact that both Packaging:Python and SIGs/Python wikipages doesn't properly mention it doesn't really help as well. No fried of mine who recently started working on packaging his project is aware of this tool and I find out about it only because I had weird newcomer's kind of questions on this mailing list and people here were kind enough to point out that I should check it first.
Initially I tried to kind of fix this issue by adding a line about this tool into SIGs/Python page some time ago: https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=SIGs%2FPython&diff=418064&oldid=417278 The problem is that this doesn't really solve anything. Now I rather feel that more changes are required. My current idea how to maintain rpm packages for my own python project is summed up here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Marbu/PythonPackaging Note that this is not a suggestion how the better description should look like. I link it here so that you can point out which part you disagree with (I'm not even a python sig member after all), so that we can catch possible disagreements as soon as possible. My suggestions below assumes that this makes sense. Keep in mind that I have hardly any real experience with python rpm packaging. So what exactly I have in mind? Compare this page: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Python with: https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Packaging_Python The difference includes: * fedora Packaging:Python page is a packaging policy, which doesn't mention pyp2rpm at all * openSUSE:Packaging_Python page is more like a step by step intro, which includes a clean example how to use SUSE's py2pack tool See also: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Haskell which clearly points out to cabal-rpm tool right in the beginning. So my suggestions are: 1) Since the Packaging:Python page is the most visible, I would include quick intro about pyp2rpm as the first section here. 2) Mention Python SIG page here as well. 3) A beginner friendly howto with more details could be maintained separately linked from (or included in) revamped Python SIG page's "Packaging Quickstart" section. Moreover: I think that it would make sense to link older versions of the guidelines which are valid for epel 6 and 7 like ruby does here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Ruby I could help me with this feature request: https://github.com/fedora-python/pyp2rpm/issues/25 Thanks for the feedback. -- Martin Bukatovic _______________________________________________ python-devel mailing list python-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/python-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
