Re: How to package a Python script

[Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowi@redhat.com>]

On Wed, 2018-07-25 at 16:55 +0200, Michael Wild wrote:
> How should I go about packaging a Python executable? Separate packages
> for python2 and python3? Only one of them? If so, which? If for both,
> is there any advice how to achieve this? I don't think that the
> python-wheel.cygclass deals with scripts in /usr/bin/ as the docs say
> that scripts should be added to PKG_CONTENTS by the maintainer. How
> would I go about making sure that I get a *2 and *3 version, also
> possibly with a symlink from * to *2? Is there a cannonical example I
> can look into? My casual trawling through my own Cygwin installation
> didn't turn up anything useful...

Depends on the package.  Most python-based scripts also include
modules, and sometimes those modules are generally usable and the
script is just a convenient entrypoint thereto (in which case it should
be named 'python-foo', *2 and *3 should be made via python-
wheel.cygclass, and the script packaged with *3), and sometimes they
serve only themselves (in which case it should be named 'foo' and
packaged with the appropriate choice of python{2,3}-
{distutils,wheel}.cygclass).

-- 
Yaakov Selkowitz
Software Engineer - Platform Enablement Group
Red Hat, Inc.