Packaging

[Michael Gorven]

We would like installing Ibid to be as easy as possible. I suggest that we
support the following installation methods (at least initially):
* Source package
* easy_install
* pip
* Debian package

In order to do this we need to remove setuptools and replace with distutils,
remove the use of pkg_resources, create a pip requirements file, and create
the Debian packaging metadata.

 affects ibid
 milestone 0.1

[Michael Gorven (mgorven)]

 assignee mgorven
 status inprogress

[Michael Gorven (mgorven)]

Debianisation of Wokkel done.

[Stefano Rivera (stefanor)]

11:52 <~Vhata> tumbleweed: nbm says pkg_resources is what we want for third-party plugins
11:53 <~Vhata> tumbleweed: if you check out gibe (his Django blog thing) it uses it
11:53 < nbm> for comment_format_mod in pkg_resources.iter_entry_points("gibe.comment_formats"):
11:53 < nbm> mace:gibe nbm$ cat gibe.egg-info/entry_points.txt
11:53 < nbm> [gibe.comment_formats]
11:53 < nbm> tinymce = gibe.tinymcesupport
11:53 < nbm> postmarkup = gibe.postmarkupsupport
11:54 < tumbleweed> nbm: doesn't that mean that we have to specify 3rd party plugins on our side?
11:54 < nbm> No.
11:54 <~Vhata> 22:28 <cocooncrash> No.
11:55 < tumbleweed> heh
11:55 < nbm> [gibe.plugins]
11:55 < nbm> amatomu = gibeamatomu.gibeplugin:AmatomuPlugin
11:55 < nbm> So, the gibeamatomu package declares that it has a gibe.plugins entry-point.
11:55 < tumbleweed> oh, ok
11:55 < nbm> Anything can go pkg_resources.iter_entry_points("gibe.plugins") and find it.
11:56 < tumbleweed> yes, that sounds like what we want

[Stefano Rivera (stefanor)]

We're in debian experimental. I'm calling this closed

[Max Rabkin (max-rabkin)]

Nice one, guys!