/* This function provides a generic Python package builder. It is intended to work with packages that use `setuptools' (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools/), which represents a large number of Python packages nowadays. */ { python, setuptools, wrapPython, lib }: { name, namePrefix ? "python-" , buildInputs ? [] , # List of packages that should be added to the PYTHONPATH # environment variable in programs built by this function. Packages # in the standard `propagatedBuildInputs' variable are also added. # The difference is that `pythonPath' is not propagated to the user # environment. This is preferrable for programs because it doesn't # pollute the user environment. pythonPath ? [] # distutils registers dependencies in .pth (good) but also creates # console_scripts for dependencies in bin/ (bad). easy_install # creates no scripts for dependencies (good) but does not register # them in pth neither (bad) - the combination gives us a pth with # dependencies and scripts only for the package we are currently # installing. , installCommand ? '' # install the current package with easy_install.pth including dependencies python setup.py install --prefix="$out" # remove console_scripts again, because they were created for deps, too rm -Rf "$out"/bin # run easy_install to generate scripts for the current package, # it won't reinstall easy_install --prefix="$out" . # move colliding easy_install.pth to specifically named one mv "$out/lib/${python.libPrefix}/site-packages/"{easy-install.pth,${name}.pth} # These cause collisions and our output is not a site anyway # If you need a site, install python-site rm -f "$out/lib/${python.libPrefix}/site-packages/"site.py* # If setuptools is a dependency, it is included in $(name}.pth rm -f "$out/lib/${python.libPrefix}/site-packages/setuptools.pth" '' , buildPhase ? "true" , doCheck ? true , checkPhase ? '' runHook preCheck python setup.py test runHook postCheck '' , postInstall ? "" , ... } @ attrs: # Keep extra attributes from ATTR, e.g., `patchPhase', etc. python.stdenv.mkDerivation (attrs // { inherit doCheck buildPhase checkPhase; name = namePrefix + name; buildInputs = [ python wrapPython setuptools ] ++ buildInputs ++ pythonPath; pythonPath = [ setuptools] ++ pythonPath; # XXX: Should we run `easy_install --always-unzip'? It doesn't seem # to have a noticeable impact on small scripts. installPhase = '' mkdir -p "$out/lib/${python.libPrefix}/site-packages" echo "installing \`${name}' with \`easy_install'..." export PYTHONPATH="$out/lib/${python.libPrefix}/site-packages:$PYTHONPATH" ${installCommand} ${postInstall} ''; postFixup = '' wrapPythonPrograms # If a user installs a Python package, she probably also wants its # dependencies in the user environment (since Python modules don't # have something like an RPATH, so the only way to find the # dependencies is to have them in the PYTHONPATH variable). # # XXX: this is not needed for things to work (pth pulls in deps) # but would be nice to have anyway - However, python deps end up # in propagated-build-native-inputs if test -e $out/nix-support/propagated-build-inputs; then ln -s $out/nix-support/propagated-build-inputs $out/nix-support/propagated-user-env-packages fi ''; })