Re: Converting PyPI to feeds

How would you compare Docker to Zero Install? It's not listed at
http://0install.net/comparison.html

On Sun, Feb 5, 2017 at 2:55 PM, Thomas Leonard <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 1 February 2017 at 16:14, Tim Diels <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I'm considering automatically converting the Python packages listed in
> the
> > Python Packaging Index (PyPI) to Zero Install feeds; Python packaging
> has a
> > few problems which Zero Install would solve. One main issue with this is
> > that Python packages are installed by executing a package's setup.py
> script.
> > While this file usually is implemented by calling setuptools.setup, this
> is
> > not always the case.
> >
> > One approach would be to convert them to source packages. Its compilation
> > step would call setup.py and the changes it makes to the system would be
> > recorded; just like an AUR package would. Then, a build server should
> > compile these source packages into binary packages. By default, the build
> > server assumes the binary package will work on any system. This
> assumption
> > can be corrected later, for individual source packages, by manually
> > specifying a list of environments to build in/for. Alternatively, if Zero
> > Install can conveniently install something with source dependencies these
> > days, it might be better not to automatically generate binary packages.
> >
> > Has anyone else looked into doing this? Any suggestions?
>
> Sounds like it should work. Compiling the source packages and getting
> the diff could be done quite easily with Docker, I guess.
>
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