Re: [PATCH 12/12] gnu: python: Add python-ipaddress.

[Leo Famulari]

On Sat, Aug 06, 2016 at 02:52:37PM +0200, David Craven wrote:
> > I believe we already have python2-ipaddress, although an older version.
> 
> Ups, I missed that. Thanks.
> 
> Can you answer some questions on best practices for packaging python packages?
> 
> 1. Are python-setuptools inputs or native-inputs? It seems to be done
> both ways but I guess it doesn't really matter since it's an interpreted
> language.

Almost always native-inputs, but there are a handful of packages that
actually use setuptools at runtime.

> 2. Pypi uri scheme changed in April to including a blake hash of the
> files, but they introduced backwards compatible redirects after it
> broke many existing tools [0]. Should new packages use the new
> or the old scheme? IMO the old one is cleaner since we can use
> (pypi-uri "package-name" version) to construct it instead of having
> long hashes. If this is a best practice we should also have the
> pypi importer suggest it instead of the new url's.

We prefer to use pypi-uri. We used the long blake URLs while we were
adjusting pypi-uri to work with the new PyPi URL scheme.