Python Development Guidelines Next Steps?

[Anmol Mishra]

Hello,


On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 9:56 PM Sebastian Huber <
sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I checked in the first version of the guide:
>
> https://docs.rtems.org/branches/master/eng/python-devel.html


> We should refine it now step by step. In particular, it would be good to
> add some best practice parts to the Testing section.
>
+1

>
> An open issue is how we would like to run the development tools.
> Integrate it in the build system (waf)? Run them through other standard
> Python tools for module  packaging, testing, and deployment? Run this
> tool with waf?
>
> For the static analysis tools flake8, pylint, and mypy you can use
> configuration files. For pylint, you can dump the default configuration
> with "pylint
> --generate-rcfile". Should we use a particular pylint version to generate
> configuration file for the RTEMS Project or should we just use whatever a
> future version will use as default?  I am not sure about the mypy
> configuration.
>
Standardizing is always good, being a new contributor I always look for
what's being followed as a standard in the community. It will be easier to
reproduce exactly the same errors and output by every developer.
Considering mypy gets a new release every month, sticking to the specific
version make sense to me (PS: I have not looked into how much major change
get pushed in these releases).

> How do we want to install the Python development tools? In the
> rtems-qual repository I simply set up a virtual environment with a
> Makefile:
>
> https://git.rtems.org/sebh/rtems-qual.git/tree/Makefile
>
> I think we should install specific versions of the tools to avoid that
> different developers get different tool reports.
>
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