[PATCH v2] eng: Add Python development guidelines

[Chris Johns]

On 18/3/20 4:52 pm, Sebastian Huber wrote:
> On 18/03/2020 06:28, Chris Johns wrote:
> 
>> Build System
>> ============
>>
>> Any need to have something about the build system to be used to wrap a project?
>> There is waf as used in rtems-tools and then are are Python packaging systems.
>>
>> Should this be covered?
> Yes, this should be covered, but I would like to do this in a follow up patch. I
> guess this topic needs a bit more consideration. Python seems to have a lot of
> specialized tools for the module packaging, testing, and deployment. I am not
> really a Python expert. So I don't know what works best for us.

We are a bit different because we are not attempting to be part of the python
ecosystem as we provide tools as stand along command line interfaces. There is
nothing stopping us moving a python tool to another language or the other way
around without a user needing to change anything.

Chris