[CASSANDRA-1213] Build python client library as egg

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Low
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Fix Version/s: 0.6.3
• Labels: distribution packaging python

Environment

python, thrift

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Daniel Lundin
• Created: 20/Jun/10 21:20
• Updated: 16/Apr/19 09:33
• Resolved: 24/Jun/10 19:23

Description

For dependency reasons it would be good to have a canonical python package for generated thrift bindings.

This would make it easier for third-party client libs like pycassa, lazyboy, etc to specify dependencies using setuptools.

Issue Links

• relates to: THRIFT-380 Use setuptools for python build