[pyicu-dev] setup.py? Eggs?

[Jim Fulton]

Andi Vajda wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 29 Nov 2005, Jim Fulton wrote:
> 
>>
>> Is there any chance that we could get a distutils- or eggs-based 
>> distribution
>> for pyicu?
> 
> 
> Are eggs ready for consumption ?

I think so.

> That or a distutils-based build would be great.

I think that eggs are fairly easy to generate from a distutils
distro.  A distutils distribution is the right place to start.

> Another option would be a configure script, I'm not sure all that the 
> Makefile is doing is supported by distutils (I know nothing about eggs 
> yet).

distutils is able to leverage the work that configure has already done for
Python.

> Patches are welcome !

I was afraid you were going to say that. :)

If I get a chance, I'll look into creating a distutils-based distribution.
One complication of finding the icu libraries, but these could, at least
be an argument to setup.py.

>> The make file is a bit of a pain to edit.  Also, is there any
>> chance of getting a istribution that doesn't require swig?  Especially 
>> since
>> a non-current swig is required?  Perhaps the source files generated by 
>> swig
>> could be distributed?
> 
> 
> Indeed, distributing the SWIG-generated files would simplify this quite 
> a bit.
> Added to the todo list.
> Thanks for the suggestion !

You're welcome.

Jim

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