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

[Duncan Roe]

On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 08:16:29AM -0600, Jeremy Hansen wrote:
> 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

No, the created tar.gz is a Slackware package, same as you get from a SlackBuild
normally.

I think all the *2tgz packages work that way.

Cheers ... Duncan.