Re: Python applications that are also libraries

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Chris Marusich <address@hidden> writes:

> Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> we have a bunch of packages that are used both as applications and as
>> Python libraries.  An example is “deeptools”.
>
> I took a brief peek at deeptools.  It looks like there are programs in
> bin, and libraries in lib.  Why can't we just split them into two
> outputs?  For example, put the libraries into the default "out" output
> and the programs into the "bin" output.

The programs in “bin” use the libraries in “lib”.  The binaries aren’t
big, so separating them from the lib output provides hardly any benefit.

The point here is that in the library case inputs must be propagated,
whereas in the case where only the executables are used the inputs don’t
have to be propagated.

Separating them in two outputs doesn’t address this problem as far as I
can see.

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Ricardo

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