Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] [savannah-help-public] how to delete an old news item?

[Karl Berry]

    https://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=7375

    Replacing the text so that it points to http://www.gnu.org/s/pyconfigure
    would be fine with me. 

I did that (on internal.sv.gnu.org).

mysql> update savane.news_bytes where forum_id=7375 set details='See 
http://www.gnu.org/software/pyconfigure.';

k

P.S. For the record, here is the old text.  I hope the search engines
don't give this post a high ranking :).


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| I have been working to implement a means for Python packages to be configured 
and installed through the standard GNU methods of a configure script and a 
Makefile. In most cases this can simply be a thin wrapper around the usual 
Python distutils setup.py script. However, I've adapted some pre-existing 
Autoconf macros (from the Automake package) as well as written some new ones, 
that allow much greater power and flexibility, particularly in the case when 
Python extensions are to be compiled from C code. 

GSRC as a project benefits because it simplifies the process of implementing 
build scripts for new Python packages: simply drop in the new configure scripts 
and use the same effortless method of writing build scripts for other projects 
that use Autotools. And, should anything more complicated need to be 
implemented, it's quite straight-forward to do.

So far, scripts built from these macros have been implemented in GSRC to 
install easily Bazaar, the GNU distributed version control system, and 
MediaGoblin, a free media hosting solution. 

Any package maintainers who are interested in using these scripts for their own 
projects can find them in the utils/python-configure/ directory of the GSRC 
source code:
http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/lh/gsrc/trunk/files/head:/util/python-configure/

As they are now, they can simply be dropped into a Python project's directory 
and be used as a wrapper around setup.py. You may want to do some minimal 
reconfiguration, such as setting the minimum Python version required by the 
software. If you're interested in expanding the scripts, you can find 
documentation on the Python macros contained in the m4/ subdirectory here:
https://www.gnu.org/software/gsrc/manual/gsrc.html#Configuring-Python-packages

If you encounter any problems with these macros, please send an email to 
address@hidden |
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