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Packaging klipper
Klipper is somewhat of a packaging anomaly among python programs, as it doesn't use setuptools to build and install. Some notes regarding how best to package it are as follows:
C modules
Klipper uses a C module to handle some kinematics calculations more quickly.
This module needs to be compiled at packaging time to avoid introducing a
runtime dependency on a compiler. To compile the C module, run python2 klippy/chelper/__init__.py.
Compiling python code
Many distributions have a policy of compiling all python code before packaging
to improve startup time. You can do this by running python2 -m compileall klippy.
Versioning
If you are building a package of Klipper from git, it is usual practice not to
ship a .git directory, so the versioning must be handled without git. To do
this, use the script shipped in scripts/make_version.py which should be run as
follows: python2 scripts/make_version.py YOURDISTRONAME > klippy/.version.
Sample packaging script
klipper-git is packaged for Arch Linux, and has a PKGBUILD (package build script) available at https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=klipper-git.