[Slackbuilds-users] python-template.SlackBuild comment/question, Re: mathics

[Jeremy Hansen]

On Mon, Mar 14, 2022, 3:24 AM David Chmelik <dchmelik at gmail.com> wrote:

> Working on mathics.SlackBuild, I'm thinking does maybe maybe
> python-template.SlackBuild template need update?  Seems /any/all/
> (almost 10+) Python programs I try anymore use pip, not setuptools
> (haven't seen it for years) so shouldn't both be in template(s)?  But,
> maybe pip isn't going to work right without pip2tgz...
>
> On 3/14/22 12:54 AM, David Chmelik wrote:
> > On 3/14/22 12:46 AM, Duncan Roe wrote:
> >> @David Chmelik: in your earlier email, you talked about mathics. I
> >> built Mathics
> >> 1.0. Now you are talking about Mathics-omnibus. As you say,
> >> Mathics-omnibus
> >> doesn't offer a source distro. pip2tgz can't build it. [...]
> > Mathics 1 SlackBuild existed since Slackware 14.2 and doesn't need
> > changes.
> >     Mathics-omnibus is newer stable Mathics full installation, which
> > is what I want to update SlackBuild for, so of course I'm talking
> > about it: many SlackBuilds will be being updated, sometimes with major
> > changes.
> I mean Slackware 14.2 is barely older than Mathics 1, from 2 October
> 2016, w/newer commits (I didn't use) since that October 4th, until late
> 2020's 1.1.  Mathics 4 (though renamed still Mathics3) was mid-2021, so
> if anyone might prefer basic package, that would've been what to try.  I
> might make basic and/or full installation Mathics build scripts.  I want
> full but depends what others may want.
>      Incidentally 'pip3tgz Mathics3-4.0.0.tar.gz' builds (but crashes,
> so I'll be talking to upstream) but I avoid unusual build methods, like
> seems poor style when discord.SlackBuild gets .deb instead of .tar.gz
> (though pip2tgz may be better than plain pip because can/does specify
> .tar.gz.)  It may (or not--comments/suggestions/policies?) be best see
> if pip can be made to install to /tmp/SBo/package-mathics then do normal
> makepkg. W/pip2tgz would I put .tar.gz in mathics.info then use pip2tgz
> on it?
>

I'm not sure why discord came up when talking about python and pip2tgz, but
I chose to use the deb because it places the files in the normal package
locations.

The tar.gz would need to be placed in /opt/ and it would need extra lines
of code to get everything set up.

Jeremy
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