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Optimizing parallel extension builds in PEP517 builds
The distutils (and therefore setuptools) build system supports building C extensions in parallel, through the use of -j (--parallel) option, passed either to build_ext or build command. Gentoo...
View ArticleThe dead weight of packages in Gentoo
You’ve probably noticed it already: Gentoo developers are overwhelmed. There is a lot of unresolved bugs. There is a lot of unmaintained packages. There is a lot of open pull requests. This is all...
View ArticleThe review-work balance, and other dilemmas
One of the biggest problems of working in such a large project as Gentoo, is that there’s always a lot of work to be done. Once you get engaged deeply enough, no matter how hard you’re going to try,...
View ArticleOptimizing distutils-r1.eclass via wheel reuse
Yesterday I’ve enabled a new distutils-r1.eclass optimization: wheel reuse. Without this optimization, the eclass would build a separate wheel for every Python implementation enabled, and then install...
View ArticleGentoo: profiles and keywords rather than releases
Different distributions have different approaches to releases. For example, Debian simultaneously maintains multiple releases (branches). The “stable” branch is recommended for production use,...
View ArticleOverview of cross-architecture portability problems
Ideally, you’d want your program to work everywhere. Unfortunately, that’s not that simple, even if you’re using high-level “portable” languages such as Python. In this blog post, I’d like to focus on...
View ArticleThe perils of transition to 64-bit time_t
(please note that there’s a correction at the bottom) In the Overview of cross-architecture portability problems, I have dedicated a section to the problems resulting from use of 32-bit time_t type....
View ArticleTesting the safe time64 transition path
Recently I’ve been elaborating on the perils of transition to 64-bit time_t, following the debate within Gentoo. Within these deliberations, I have also envisioned potential solutions to ensure that...
View ArticleThe peculiar world of Gentoo package testing
While discussing uv tests with Fedora developers, it occurred to me how different your average Gentoo testing environment is — not only from these used upstream, but also from these used by other Linux...
View ArticlePoetry(-core), or the ultimate footgun
I’ve been complaining about the Poetry project a lot, in particular about its use (or more precisely, the use of poetry-core) as a build system. In fact, it pretty much became a synonym of a footgun...
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