Hi all, In the scope of the RFQ, I am currently looking at bug #14737 (adding support of PEP-517 in recipetool/devtool).
I am quite new to the recipetool/devtool tools and I have several ideas I would like to discuss before going into development that may not be appropriate/necessary for the tool. As of today, from what I understand (please correct me if I am wrong) 'devtool add' supports the creation of recipes for python modules from their download tarball so something like: devtool add https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/e4/29/f1e7113ca4632283a76cdbe40b62be860d268fdc0e8eab7216ffaf2aa0ef/subunit-0.0.0a0.tar.gz works, but: - the created recipe does NOT takes advantage of the pypi class: the created recipe will have the SRC_URI variable instead of using 'inherit pypi' - user has to find the url of the tarball I think it would be really easier for the user to just use: 'devtool add https://pypi.org/project/subunit/' This will have several advantages: - easier to use - fetch latest version automatically - easy to fetch specific version with --version - can easily detect 'pypi.org' on the url and inherit pypi - can easily parse the webpage for several informations such as author, summary, homepage, bugtracker page .. (I know some of them can be extracted from setup.py / pyproject.toml, but not always) Looking at the create_recipe function of scripts/lib/recipetool/create.py, we can see that code is really git oriented even if you use a tarball, you go through a bunch of 'if' that doesn't apply. I think we can modernize this part of the code. This would also be useful for perl modules and cpan or rust modules and cargo... What do you think? Is this something that is worth investigating and implementing? Cheers Julien
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