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Re: Python package providing both modules and an app

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Hugo Lefeuvre <hle@debian.org> writes:

> I'm currently packaging python-slugify[0], a Python application for
> slugifying unicode strings.

Thank you for considering the issues and asking for advice.

> Like here[1] upstream decided to write everything as a python module
> with an entry script placed in /usr/bin that calls main(). So we can
> consider python-slugify as both an application and a library.

This seems to be more common now that command-line invocation is
becoming even more discouraged. When the upstream documentation
recommends ‘python3 -m foo.bar’ as the primary means of invoking the
command line functionality, that really blurs the line between
command-line application versus library.

There is a compounding tendency to disparage ‘python3 ./foo/bar.py’,
which is subject to weird hacks and incomplete workarounds like
<URL:https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0366/>. I wish this trend could
be effectively reversed, because IMO this is a serious impediment to
considering Python a good choice for command-line scripting. But this is
all a digression, my apologies.

> The package is originally requested as a Python module[2] and it seems 
> clear to me that the whole thing is only useful as a library

I don't understand this statement. If it is *only* useful as a library,
why install the command-line entry point?

> Everything is working well. However, I'm not really satisfied by the way I 
> solved the problem in debian/rules[4]. Does anybody know a better way 
> of doing that ?

Why not install the command by using the configuration files for
‘dh_install(1)’; that is, specify in ‘debian/slugify.install’ the files
to install.

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Ben Finney

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Python package providing both modules and an app Hugo Lefeuvre <hle@debian.org> - 2016-06-21 23:20 +0200
  Re: Python package providing both modules and an app Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> - 2016-06-22 03:30 +0200
    Re: Python package providing both modules and an app Hugo Lefeuvre <hle@debian.org> - 2016-06-22 22:00 +0200
      Re: Python package providing both modules and an app Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> - 2016-06-23 03:10 +0200
        Re: Python package providing both modules and an app Hugo Lefeuvre <hle@debian.org> - 2016-06-23 18:40 +0200
          Re: Python package providing both modules and an app Hugo Lefeuvre <hle@debian.org> - 2016-06-30 08:30 +0200
      Re: Python package providing both modules and an app Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org> - 2016-07-05 10:50 +0200
    Re: Python package providing both modules and an app Barry Warsaw <barry@debian.org> - 2016-06-23 03:00 +0200
      Python program as a command-line program (was: Python package providing both modules and an app) Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> - 2016-06-23 03:20 +0200
        Re: Python program as a command-line program (was: Python package  providing both modules and an app) Barry Warsaw <barry@debian.org> - 2016-06-24 21:30 +0200
          Re: Python program as a command-line program Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> - 2016-06-27 09:00 +0200
      Re: Python package providing both modules and an app Ian Cordasco <graffatcolmingov@gmail.com> - 2016-06-23 03:30 +0200
  Re: Python package providing both modules and an app Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org> - 2016-07-05 10:40 +0200
    Re: Python package providing both modules and an app Hugo Lefeuvre <hle@debian.org> - 2016-07-05 16:50 +0200
      Re: Python package providing both modules and an app Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org> - 2016-07-05 21:00 +0200

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