[MathDOM] Re: Packaging MathDOM, patching lxml

[Stefan B. <beh...@gk...>]

Stefan Behnel wrote:
> I may consider changing setup.py to check for their availability, too. That
> would make it easier for maintainers to split up the package. If you do that,
> I'd really appreciate it if you provided both packages, though.
> 
> If it fits the package naming convention, you may call them
> 
> python-mathdom-lxml
> and
> python-mathdom-pyxml
> and the complete package
> python-mathdom
> 
> or something in that line.

The setup.py in the current CVS version now has a couple of configuration
options that should help packagers:

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# python setup.py --help-mathdom
MathDOM package install options:
    --name=XXX           : force package name to XXX
    --contrib-lxml       : include lxml sources in 'contrib/lxml/'  (False)
    --no-contrib-lxml    : do not include lxml sources
    --require-imports    : check if required packages are installed (False)
    --no-require-imports : do not check installation
    --pyxml              : build *only* 'mathdom-pyxml' package
    --lxml               : build *only* 'mathdom-lxml'  package

    Current build config : lxml (True), pyxml (True), forced name (None)
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You can checkout my lxml branch (see README) into "contrib/lxml/" in the
MathDOM source directory and have it included automatically using
"--contrib-lxml". It is not built automatically, though.

Is that ok for you?

Stefan