On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 6:01 AM Petr Viktorin <pviktori@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 2/18/19 9:19 PM, Ben Cotton wrote: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/BuildRequires_Generators > > > > = BuildRequires Generators = > > > > == Summary == > > Add possibility to generate build-time dependencies within RPM spec > > file and teach RPM and mock how to handle this. > > > I am very excited about this change. Count with me for Python. Is there > a (draft) API to start coding against? > > In Python, there's an effort to enable things like this generator, e.g. > [PEP 517]. > > Here, gathering BuildRequires is a two-step process: > > - the "build backend" is specified in declarative metadata; > - then the build backend can query backend-specific metadata for > additional BuildRequires. > > Is that possible with the current plans? > > > BTW: New versions of Python's usual build system (setuptools/setup.py) > will be forward compatible with PEP 517. Please do not write generators > that use setup.py directly. We currently have no BuildRequires generators written yet, so we can Do It Right(TM) for this. :) That said, I'm not sure how we will be broadly compatible for divining setup_requires if they are specified... -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
