Bento presentation for CAMPUG

A quick presentation I made at CAMPUG to highlight a few points around my python packaging solution, bento.

1. ห౰(BENTO) A Python solution for packaging Tuesday, 3 July 12
2. WHO AM I ? Tuesday, 3 July 12
3. NUMPY/SCIPY DEVELOPER Tuesday, 3 July 12
4. IN PARTICULAR: PACKAGING Tuesday, 3 July 12
5. NUMPY USES DISTUTILS Tuesday, 3 July 12
6. WHY WE DON’T LIKE IT • Hard to customize • Extensions based on monkey- patching • pip, setuptools, etc... a nightmare to manage Tuesday, 3 July 12
7. BENTO # bento.info file Name: foo Version: 0.1 Description: Package description. Library: Packages: foo, foo.core Tuesday, 3 July 12
8. BENTOMAKER $ bentomaker configure $ bentomaker build $ bentomaker install # Or more simply (automatically # runs configure and build) $ bentomaker install Tuesday, 3 July 12
9. FROM DISTUTILS TO BENTO # convert setup.py to bento.info $ bentomaker convert Tuesday, 3 July 12
10. PIP SUPPORT # setup.py from bento.distutils import setup setup() Tuesday, 3 July 12
11. ADDING NEW COMMAND $ bentomaker hello hello # bscript file from bento.commands import hooks @hooks.command def hello(context): print "Hello" # bento.info file HookFile: bscript Tuesday, 3 July 12
12. ADDING DATA-FILES Datafiles: pdf_documentation TargetDir: $pdfdir Files: main.pdf $ bentomaker configure --pdfdir=/usr/pdfdoc # ant-like glob format supported Datafiles: pdf_documentation TargetDir: $pdfdoc Files: doc/**/*.pdf Tuesday, 3 July 12
13. ADVANCED USAGE Tuesday, 3 July 12
14. HOOKS FILES (2) from bento.commands import hooks @hooks.command def hello(context): print "hello nice world" @hooks.command def goodbye(context): print "goodbye cruel world !" @hooks.startup def startup(context): context.set_before("goodbye", "hello") Dependencies defined outside classes for lower coupling between commands Tuesday, 3 July 12
15. PACKAGE METADATA (1) # bento.info content Version: 0.2 Author: John Doe MetaTemplateFile: foo/__info.py.in # foo/__info.py.in template content version = $VERSION author = $AUTHOR Allow for a package to know its own metadata: Tuesday, 3 July 12
16. PACKAGE METADATA (2) New metadata can be defined in the hook file: # foo/__info.py.in template content version = $VERSION git_revision = $GIT_REVISION author = $AUTHOR @hooks.pre_build def pre_build(context): context.register_metadata("git_revision", compute_git_revision()) Tuesday, 3 July 12
17. OUT-OF-TREE BUILDS source_tree$ ls bento.info foo/__init__.py ... build_tree$ bentomaker \ --bento-info=.../bento.info Tuesday, 3 July 12
18. NUMPY AND BENTO • Build scripts 50 % smaller • parallel and reliable partial build support Tuesday, 3 July 12
19. WHERE TO GET IT • On github: http://github.com/cournape/Bento.git • Documentation: http://cournape.github.com/Bento • Mailing List: bento@librelist.com Tuesday, 3 July 12