Re: Converting PyPI to feeds

Maybe look into this:
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/easybuild

> Am 06.02.2017 um 19:02 schrieb Tim Diels <[email protected]>:
> 
> Never mind that question. It's like comparing apples and oranges.
> 
>> On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 1:06 PM, Tim Diels <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 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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