[ITA] python-imaging

marco atzeri marco.atzeri@gmail.com
Fri Jul 10 12:24:55 GMT 2020


On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 12:28 PM Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via Cygwin-apps  wrote:
>
> On 10/07/2020 01:20, airplanemath via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> >> I tend to use loops like
> >>
> >> for ver in ${PYTHON_WHEEL_VERSIONS//:/ };
> >> do
> >>     /usr/bin/python${ver} script
> >> done
> >>
> >> for the tests.  Also, I believe ${ARCH} is the same as $(uname -m) here,
> >> if you want to streamline the PYTHONPATH definition a bit.  Both of
> >> those are personal style and you are entirely welcome to ignore this.
> Originally it was using a loop like that for the tests, but for some
> reason not all of the Python versions I wanted to build for were being
> tested that way (it was only doing 3.7 and 3.8). I figure I might as
> well use ARCH then, makes it a bit clearer.
> >> Other than that, I noticed you're writing your own src_compile and
> >> src_install.  Is there some reason python_wheel_compile and
> >> python_wheel_install aren't working for you? I haven't noticed a problem
> >> with either of those functions in the past year or so.  (For reference, the
> >> value of PYTHON_WHEEL_VERSIONS determines which python versions
> >> are compiled: see
> >> https://cygwin.github.io/cygport/python-wheel_cygclass.html#robo361).
>
> Ah, thank you for that link, that clears things up for me. I didn't
> realise I could do that. So, I can just set PYTHON_WHEEL_VERSIONS to
> "3.6:3.7:3.8" to build for those versions? I guess I don't need the
> custom functions that way, that would make things simpler.
>
> So far I've built for Python 3.6 and newer, should I also be building
> for 3.5 or are we not bothered at this point?

I am not bothering with 3.5 for my builds.
The focus should be to have 3.8 up and running
so 3.6:3.7:3.8 are enough

>
> >> Thank you for taking up this package.
>
> You're welcome, and thanks for the advice :)
>
> Hamish

Regards
Marco


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