Category Archives: GSOC2011

Tomorrow is the ‘pencil down’ date, so the most I did in this week is still fixing and improving my code and docs to make all of my contributions a reviewable version. The detail is: for develop command 1. enhance … Continue reading →

I was not familiar with how to write docs for python source code last week, so I sent an email to my mentor, then got to know that docs mean more than the comments in the source. From reading the … Continue reading →

The main work I have done this week is fulfiling the features of ‘develop’ as much as possible, and improving the tests and comments. However, in a long time, I didn’t know what’s the differencies between the comments and docs, … Continue reading →

Features already implemented: 1) [main use]projects can be importable after installed with this command, without copying any files 2) ['install-dir' option] the installation directory can be specified if the default site-packages is not permitted to write, but the specified installing … Continue reading →

With mentor’s good suggestion and help, the work of adding automatic script generation for packaging is being better and better now, but there are still many places to be improved. One big problem among them is how to put wrapper … Continue reading →

Good news is that a simple patch aiming to add automatic script generation functionality to packaging can work now. Current patch can create executable script with no extension on POSIX and .exe file on Windows platform, which is a good … Continue reading →

To make things more clear, I plan to write different posts to talk about what should be done for a specific entry_point on a specific platform. This post just focuses on the ‘console_scripts’ entry_point on POSIX, which is learned from … Continue reading →