[OpenWrt-Devel] alternative for "pyserial+python-mini"

micke.prag at telldus.se micke.prag at telldus.se
Fri Jun 26 10:58:41 EDT 2015


Hi,

I have just created a pull request for an updated version of pyserial.
https://github.com/openwrt/packages/pull/1485

Regards
Micke Prag

2015-06-26 15:26 skrev Alexandru Ardelean:

> Ah, since that email, python became: - python-base - just the minimal 
> to
> have a python interpreter running - python-light - is a "dynamic"
> package; it's python (full) minus all other python-codecs,
> python-compiler, etc - python - full python install, minus a few 
> stuff I
> considered that could be stripped [to reduce size], like tests [per
> module], some python-tk/tcl [GUI] libs
>
> The idea of python-light is that, whenever you move a Python built-in
> module from python-light into a separate package (like 
> python-codecs),
> python-light gets lighter.
>
> The mechanism is fairly dynamic; you just need to add a new
> 'python-package-xxxxxxx.mk [3]' file with some basic Makefile rules, 
> and
> that's it.
>
> People can choose to install python-base if they need like
> really-really-really-really basic python (a = b + c and maybe some 
> other
> syntax).
> Then they can choose to install other optional packages.
> But for most cases, maybe python-light would be sufficient.
>
> The above is also true for python3.
>
> On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 4:15 PM, valent.turkovic at gmail.com
> <valent.turkovic at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 24 October 2014 at 11:10, Alexandru Ardelean
>> <ardeleanalex at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > python-mini is now just python.
>>
>> Thanks for clarification, I'll add that info on Python OpenWrt Wiki
>> page [1].
>>
>> I tried installing python package on Caos Calmer rc2 and I get a 
>> bunch
>> of dependencies installed automatically and they use up bunch of
>> space. I didn't notice that python-mini package installed lots of
>> dependencies on Barrier Breaker, but I'm not 100% sure.
>>
>> Was python-mini package on BB python without any dependencies and
>> python same package but with all added dependencies?
>>
>> [1] http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/software/python [1]
>
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Links:
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[1] http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/software/python
[2] https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
[3] http://python-package-xxxxxxx.mk
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