[jira] [Commented] (PROTON-895) Rely on python to build the downloaded tarball

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ASF subversion and git services commented on PROTON-895:
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Commit 3db3cf1783f1b91211028842389801316d10b8ba in qpid-proton's branch refs/heads/master from [~flaper87]
[ https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=qpid-proton.git;h=3db3cf1 ]

PROTON-895: Rely on python to build downloaded tarball

Instead of using cmake to build the downloaded tarball, rely on python
for building and installing the library. This process is not only
cleaner but also plays nicer with the environment we're trying to give
support to.

In addition to the above, this plays nicer with the user and removes a
requirement for having the library installed. Note that the built
library will no longer overwrite system libraries but it'll be placed
along to the python bindings we're building.

(cherry picked from commit f2e97708a9c0da049bbc5089909fc31ab092edf8)


> Rely on python to build the downloaded tarball
> ----------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: PROTON-895
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PROTON-895
>             Project: Qpid Proton
>          Issue Type: Bug
>            Reporter: Flavio Percoco
>            Assignee: Ken Giusti
>         Attachments: 0001-Rely-on-python-to-build-downloaded-tarball.patch
>
>
> Recently, a patch that made python-qpid-proton's setup.py download proton-c and build it whenever it's not found in the system. The patch relied on cmake to build the library as everyone would do when building proton-c.
> While that works, it's not the right, most pythonic, reliable way to do it. Some reasons why it's not a good thing:
> 1. It might overwrite a system qpid install if there's one and if the python-qpid-proton library is being installed in the system
> 2. It requires users - including CI systems, etc - to have cmake installed.
> 3. It does everything from outside the Python mechanism.
> The patch proposed in this bug changes the current behavior in favor of using Python's build extensions to compile the library. The patch follows the same steps as you'd do with cmake and it does it *just* for the downloaded tarball. If there's an installed proton-c library, there's nothing to do. If you're building it using cmake from a proton-c dir, it'll keep using cmake normally.
> The built library doesn't have the same name as the global one and it's installed along with the python binding instead of installing header files and the library itself system wide.



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