expose public regulated data types as a python package

[ot-goegelem]

Problem

I want to write a small tool that uses pycyphal and the public regulated data types.
But is quite annoying that it is not possible to just add/install the public regulated data types as a dependency.

I understand that this is a deliberate decision to make it possible to add custom data types, but my tool does not rely on custom data types and I want to being able to have one setup with all dependencies without needing some custom setup from the end user.

Solution

It is then possible to use this dependency by just specifying the git repository

pip install git+ssh://[email protected]/ot-goegelem/public_regulated_data_types.git@feature/python_package

[pavel-kirienko]

Thanks! Please see my comment inquiring if it's possible to strap down the setup.py

[pavel-kirienko]

Is the following not a valid replacement?

import setuptools
import distutils.command.build_py
from pathlib import Path

class BuildPy(distutils.command.build_py.build_py):
    def run(self):
        import pycyphal
        output_dir = Path(self.build_lib, self.pkg_name, ".demo_dsdl_compiled")
        cur_path = pathlib.Path(__file__).parent
        pycyphal.dsdl.compile_all(
            [
                cur_path / "uavcan",
                cur_path / "reg",
            ],
            output_directory=output_dir,
        )
        super().run()

setuptools.setup(cmdclass={"build_py": BuildPy})

[pavel-kirienko]

Suggested change

	requires = ['setuptools', 'pycyphal>=1.20.0']
	requires = ['setuptools', 'pycyphal~=1.20.0']