[AVRO-831] Enhance the Python `distutils` control file `setup.py` to build Avro/Python without a pre-processing step.

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.10.0
• Component/s: python
• Labels: build python

Environment

Operating environments supporting the Python programming language.

• Assignee: Michael A. Smith
• Reporter: Joseph Koshy
• Created: 27/May/11 16:38
• Updated: 02/Jul/20 12:23
• Resolved: 11/Dec/19 00:38

Description

Avro's build process for its Python bindings currently needs a set of pre-processing steps that need to be executed before the build proper is started. These pre-processing steps are executed by ant.

The attached patch folds these pre-processing steps into the setup.py control script that is input to Python's distutils build tool kit. This eliminates the dependency on ant.

In the patch:

• Source files that need keyword expansion are renamed to use a .in extension. The build process will generate the appropriately transformed .py files from these .in files.
• setup.py supports a new command make_interop_data, used to generate test data for use with interoperability test code.

Issue Links

• is duplicated by: AVRO-623 python avro.ipc has unpythonic build-time dependency
• relates to: AVRO-817 Add __version__ to avro/__init__.py
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #733