Getting started with python ports

[Alexander Botero-Lowry]

> I would like to learn to make Python ports.
> Going over the FreeBSD Porter's Handbook and it seems more geared towards C.
> 
It definetly is but there is a section on python ports as well. 

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/using-python.html

> Anyone knows of a good intro to ports.. geared towards creating ports for 
> Python apps? In particular I may have some ports which will be just to be 
> used in the place I work to have some programs easily installed across a 
> number of servers.
> 
The address above will help you out. Basically if you have a setup.py using 
distutils you can use USE_PYDISTUTILS and it will basically do all the magic 
for you.

> Alternatively, any ports that anyone believes are simple enough to use as 
> samples would be just as good. So far the programs I have made for work are 
net/py-netstring, devel/py-magic are both fairly simple ones using 
USE_PYDISTUTILS

> fairly simple (ie just a single file with no dependencies). However, as 
> python becomes more widely used at work I may need to have some dependencies 
> loaded for my scripts to work.. so I figured I would start learning how to 
> work with python ports early. 
Dependencies are also fairly easy to do, 
${PYTHON_SITELIBDIR}/blah/__init__.py:${PORTSDIR}/devel/py-blah
or something like that will work in most cases (if the python app is
a module).

I hope this helps,

Alex
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