Re: Handling of additional python dependencies

[Henning Schild <henning.schild@siemens.com>]

Am Mon, 25 Sep 2017 14:44:13 +0200
schrieb "[ext] Claudius Heine" <claudius.heine.ext@siemens.com>:

> Hi,
> 
> I am currently creating a proof of concept implementation for the 
> caching apt repo proxy for isar.

Cant you just use some existing implementation, like apt-cacher or
apt-cacher-ng?

> My goal was to create this using asyncio, but the python std lacks a 
> async http protocol implementation. I tried using as much as I can
> from the sync version of the http protocol that is available the
> python std lib, but that is not that trivial to do. I am now at the
> point where I have to decide if I just used some http asyncio library
> outside of the std or try another route with this. Maybe just use the
> sync version and slap more threads on it.
> 
> How is the policy concerning external python dependencies and isar?
> Is it possible to just copy those libraries into the scripts/lib/ 
> directory, specify it as a host dependency or am I forced to only use 
> the python std?

I would go for a host dependency or a git-submodule, more copies/forks
of stuff are not a good idea. Having bitbake and wic in there already
seems problematic.

Henning

> Thanks,
> Claudius
>