[Distutils] Making pip and PyPI work with conda packages

[Nick Coghlan]

On 21 May 2015 at 10:52, Wes Turner <wes.turner at gmail.com> wrote:
> On May 20, 2015 7:43 PM, "Nick Coghlan" <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> One of my hopes for the metadata extension system in PEP 426 is that
>> we'll be able to define extensions like "fedora.repackage",
>> "debian.repackage"  or "conda.repackage" which include whatever
>> additional info is needed to automate creation of a policy compliant
>> downstream package in a format that's a purely additive complement to
>> the upstream metadata, rather than being somewhat duplicative as is
>> the case today with things like spec files, deb control files, and
>> conda recipes.
>
> http://conda.pydata.org/docs/bdist_conda.html bdist_conda?

conda has the benefit of *not* renaming Python packages in convoluted
ways that interfere with automated identification of dependencies :)

Both conda and Linux distros run into the "it's difficult/impossible
to describe external binary dependencies in a cross-platform way"
problem, though. While https://www.biicode.com/ is interesting in the
context of CMake based projects, that still excludes a lot of
software. (RYPPL is another I'd heard of, but it's GitHub repo hasn't
seen much activity since 2013, and ryppl.org appears to be entirely
dead)

Regards,
Nick.

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