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diff --git a/lang/python/docs/Short_History.rst b/lang/python/docs/Short_History.rst new file mode 100644 index 00000000..839570e1 --- /dev/null +++ b/lang/python/docs/Short_History.rst @@ -0,0 +1,57 @@ +======================= +A Short History of PyME +======================= + +In 2002 John Goerzen released PyME; Python bindings for the GPGME +module which utilised the current release of Python of the time +(Python 2.2 or 2.3) and SWIG. Shortly after creating it and ensuring +it worked he stopped supporting it, though left his work available on +his Gopher site. + +A couple of years later the project was picked up by Igor Belyi and +actively developed and maintained by him from 2004 to 2008. Igor's +whereabouts at the time of this document's creation are unknown, but +the current authors do hope he is well. We're assuming (or hoping) +that life did what life does and made continuing untenable. + +In 2014 Martin Albrecht wanted to patch a bug in the PyME code and +discovered the absence of Igor. Following a discussion on the PyME +mailing list he became the new maintainer for PyME, releasing version +0.9.0 in May of that year. He remains the maintainer of the original +PyME release in Python 2.6 and 2.7 (available via PyPI). + +In 2015 Ben McGinnes approached Martin about a Python 3 version, while +investigating how complex a task this would be the task ended up being +completed. A subsequent discussion with Werner Koch led to the +decision to fold the Python 3 port back into the original GPGME +release in the languages subdirectory for non-C bindings. Ben is the +maintainer of the Python 3 port within GPGME. + + +--------------------- +The Annoyances of Git +--------------------- + +As anyone who has ever worked with git knows, submodules are horrible +way to deal with pretty much anything. In the interests of avoiding +migraines, that is being skipped with addition of PyME to GPGME. +Instead the files will be added to the subdirectory, along with a copy +of the entire git log up to that point as a separate file within the +docs directory (old-commits.log). As the log for PyME is nearly 100KB +and the log for GPGME is approximately 1MB, this would cause +considerable bloat, as well as some confusion, should the two be +merged. Hence the unfortunate, but necessary, step to simply move the +files. A regular repository version will be maintained should it be +possible to implement this better in the future. + + +------------------ +The Perils of PyPI +------------------ + +At the current time the Python 3 fork is not available via PyPI and +the pip installer. The recommended installation method is to follow +the instructions in lang/py3-pyme/INSTALL. This will build the +necessary SWIG portions against the installed version of GPGME. + + |