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doc: Mention `buildPythonPackage'.

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@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ in Nixpkgs to easily build packages for other programming languages,
such as Perl or Haskell. These are described in this chapter.</para>
<section><title>Perl</title>
<section xml:id="ssec-language-perl"><title>Perl</title>
<para>Nixpkgs provides a function <varname>buildPerlPackage</varname>,
a generic package builder function for any Perl package that has a
@ -156,7 +156,42 @@ ClassC3Componentised = buildPerlPackage rec {
<section><title>Python</title>
<para>TODO</para>
<para>
Python packages that
use <link xlink:href="http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools/"><literal>setuptools</literal></link>,
which many Python packages do nowadays, can be built very simply using
the <varname>buildPythonPackage</varname> function. This function is
implemented
in <link xlink:href="https://svn.nixos.org/repos/nix/nixpkgs/trunk/pkgs/development/python-modules/generic/default.nix"><filename>pkgs/development/python-modules/generic/default.nix</filename></link>
and works similarly to <varname>buildPerlPackage</varname>. (See
<xref linkend="ssec-language-perl"/> for details.)
</para>
<para>
Python packages that use <varname>buildPythonPackage</varname> are
defined
in <link xlink:href="https://svn.nixos.org/repos/nix/nixpkgs/trunk/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix"><filename>pkgs/python-packages.nix</filename></link>.
Most of them are simple. For example:
<programlisting>
twisted = buildPythonPackage {
name = "twisted-8.1.0";
src = fetchurl {
url = http://tmrc.mit.edu/mirror/twisted/Twisted/8.1/Twisted-8.1.0.tar.bz2;
sha256 = "0q25zbr4xzknaghha72mq57kh53qw1bf8csgp63pm9sfi72qhirl";
};
propagatedBuildInputs = [ pkgs.ZopeInterface ];
meta = {
homepage = http://twistedmatrix.com/;
description = "Twisted, an event-driven networking engine written in Python";
license = "MIT";
};
};
</programlisting>
</para>
</section>
@ -182,4 +217,4 @@ ClassC3Componentised = buildPerlPackage rec {
</section>
</chapter>
</chapter>