Date: Week 3
Time: ?
Type: IRC
Participants: AbdealiJK, DrTrigon, jayvdb
Description: Meeting about handling non-pip packages, see T134121 and T135834
The functionallity we need to replace involves 3 issues:
# find, download and install packages not handeled by pip (or any other means, e.g. package manager)
# apply patches
# automatic compillation for python modules needing it during install
== Agenda:
[ ] externals module: functionality?
- see https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/PWBO/browse/master/externals/
[ ] replace externals by conda?
- see http://conda.pydata.org/docs/build_tutorials/pkgs2.html?highlight=patch#about-conda-build-recipe
- solve {T132659} first in order to then add to a docker image (PAWS or general for install on users machine)
[ ] Docker (see Pywikibot's `Dockerfile`)
== Minutes of the Meeting: