Issue 3754 - Initial setup of the python-abp repo.

makefile

+# Automation of common development operations.

[Sebastian Noack, 2016/03/14 11:16:01]

A makefile, doesn't seem appropriate for a Python project. Note that you can add
additional commands to setup.py if you need to.

[Vasily Kuznetsov, 2016/03/14 12:04:29]

The makefile is not necessary to build or install the module. It just saves
typing by automating common tasks. So it's not an extra dependency that would
annoy people that don't have make installed, just a helpful tool for those who
do.

Doing the same with setup.py is possible, but the amount of code would be
greater, and I would probably need to create an additional python file to put
this stuff in, which would clutter the project. Finally "make clean" is still
shorter than "python setup.py clean".

Finally, some high profile python projects use the approach with makefile, which
makes me think that it's reasonably kosher. For example:
* https://github.com/mitsuhiko/flask/blob/master/Makefile,
* https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests/blob/master/Makefile

So my preference would be to keep the makefile.

[Sebastian Noack, 2016/03/14 12:19:22]

Flask and Requests aren't the best examples for best practices if you ask me.
Also except for the devenv command, the commands in here doesn't save much
typing anyway. And that command could simply be implemented in setup.py as well.
Using two seperate build systems, that is setup.py and Makefile seems redundant
to me.

[Vasily Kuznetsov, 2016/03/14 17:20:41]

Ok, let me try to implement the same functionality in setup.py and we see how it
looks.

+
+.PHONY: devenv clean install uninstall test testcov htmlcov
+
+PACKAGE=python_abp
+MODULE=abp
+DEVENV=__
+TESTS=tests
+
+PYTHON=${DEVENV}/bin/python
+PIP=${DEVENV}/bin/pip
+PYTEST=${DEVENV}/bin/py.test
+TOX=${DEVENV}/bin/tox
+
+help:
+        @echo
+        @echo "This makefile automates common development operations."
+        @echo
+        @echo "    Usage: make <target>"
+        @echo
+        @echo "Where target is one of:"
+        @echo
+        @echo "    devenv      -- Create development environment"
+        @echo "    test        -- Run the tests with default version of python"
+        @echo "    testcov     -- Output test coverage report to console"
+        @echo "    htmlcov     -- Generate test coverage report in HTML"
+        @echo "    testall     -- Run the tests with all supported python versions"
+        @echo "    syntaxcheck -- Check syntax with flake8"
+        @echo "    diffpep8    -- Find PEP8-non-compliance"
+        @echo "    fixpep8     -- Fix PEP8-non-compliance (MIGHT CHANGE SOURCE)"
+        @echo "    install     -- Install module and script with default python"
+        @echo "    uninstall   -- Uninstall from default python"
+        @echo "    clean       -- Remove testing and build artifacts"
+        @echo
+
+devenv: ${DEVENV}
+
+${DEVENV}:
+        virtualenv ${DEVENV}
+        ${PIP} install pytest pytest-cov tox flake8 autopep8
+        ${PYTHON} setup.py develop
+
+test: ${DEVENV}
+        ${PYTEST} ${TESTS}
+
+testcov: ${DEVENV}
+        ${PYTEST} --cov=${MODULE} ${TESTS}
+
+htmlcov: ${DEVENV}
+        ${PYTEST} --cov-report=html --cov=${MODULE} ${TESTS}
+
+testall: ${DEVENV}
+        ${TOX}
+
+syntaxcheck: ${DEVENV}
+        ${DEVENV}/bin/flake8 ${MODULE} ${TESTS}
+
+diffpep8: ${DEVENV}
+        ${DEVENV}/bin/autopep8 --diff -r -aaa ${MODULE} ${TESTS}
+
+fixpep8: ${DEVENV}
+        ${DEVENV}/bin/autopep8 --in-place -r -aaa ${MODULE} ${TESTS}
+
+install:
+        python setup.py install
+
+uninstall:
+        pip uninstall -y ${PACKAGE}
+
+clean:
+        rm -Rf ${DEVENV} .coverage .cache .tox htmlcov ${PACKAGE}.egg-info\
+                `find . -name *.pyc` build dist MANIFEST