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

[Duncan Roe]

On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 02:24:25AM -0700, David Chmelik 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?
>
With pip2tgz, get the source archive from PyPI (may be tar.gz or zip) and
pip2tgz will make an actual package ready to install.

Cheers ... Duncan.