On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 7:06 AM, Chris Packham judge.packham@gmail.com wrote:
To make it easier to use patman on other projects add a distutils style installer. Now patman can be installed with
cd u-boot/tools/patman && python setup.py install
There are also the usual distutils options for creating source/binary distributions of patman.
Signed-off-by: Chris Packham judge.packham@gmail.com
I've been playing with using patman for Linux development and it occurred to me that patman should really be something that lives on my default $PATH.
It's simple enough to create a distutils configuration that makes this a reality.
One thing that would make sense for this is to make patman a python package to avoid polluting site-packages with generic names like 'test' and 'command'. With a little restructuring it would probably be possible to setup something that works both as an installable package and in-tree as it does today. But before I go down that path I wanted to see if there was a desire for such packaging or do people just add u-boot/tools/patman to their $PATH.
yes, please!