[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 284071] New: [AutoInstall] Package registration is backwards (distribution v. import)

[bugzilla-daemon at webkit.org]

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=284071

            Bug ID: 284071
           Summary: [AutoInstall] Package registration is backwards
                    (distribution v. import)
           Product: WebKit
           Version: WebKit Nightly Build
          Hardware: Unspecified
                OS: Unspecified
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: New Bugs
          Assignee: webkit-unassigned at lists.webkit.org
          Reporter: gsnedders at apple.com
                CC: webkit-bug-importer at group.apple.com

Currently, we have:

Package(import_name: str, version: Version=None, pypi_name: str|None=None, slow_install: bool=False, wheel: bool|None=None, aliases: list[str]|None=None, implicit_deps: list[str]|None=None)

However, this is backwards. We require "import_name", which refers to an import package (https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/glossary/#term-Import-Package), but we can't actually _just_ install a given import package; we can only install a given distribution package (https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/glossary/#term-Distribution-Package), what we call a "pypi_name".

This totally fails to account for the fact that a single distribution package can be made up of many import packages, and if you enumerate these all separately we'll end up with the AutoInstaller needlessly installing and reinstalling the same distribution package. (You can workaround this by specifying things as aliases, but that's somewhat non-obvious.)

We should probably try and move away from this, and ideally we shouldn't need aliases at all.

Our main constraint is that given a Python script importing a given import package, we need to be able to find what distribution package provides it.

We probably want to have as our primary key here the distribution package name, and then list import packages it provides (and we can error if it doesn't provide the import packages we expect).

-- 
You are receiving this mail because:
You are the assignee for the bug.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-unassigned/attachments/20241204/5e5d0a2b/attachment.htm>