add py-vl-convert-python

[wu-kan]

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[spackbot-app]

Hi @wu-kan! I noticed that the following package(s) don't yet have maintainers:

• py-vl-convert-python

Are you interested in adopting any of these package(s)? If so, simply add the following to the package class:

    maintainers("wu-kan")

If not, could you contact the developers of this package and see if they are interested? You can quickly see who has worked on a package with spack blame:

$ spack blame py-vl-convert-python

Thank you for your help! Please don't add maintainers without their consent.

You don't have to be a Spack expert or package developer in order to be a "maintainer," it just gives us a list of users willing to review PRs or debug issues relating to this package. A package can have multiple maintainers; just add a list of GitHub handles of anyone who wants to volunteer.

[adamjstewart]

Do we also need to add the dependencies from Cargo.toml to avoid pip downloading things during the install?

[wu-kan]

I tried, but failed. And I find other packages also suffer from this (e.g., eza, py-tokenizers). Maybe we need a new download_dependencies phases in spack.build_systems.cargo and spack.build_systems.python_maturin …

[wu-kan]

Do we also need to add the dependencies from Cargo.toml to avoid pip downloading things during the install?

I tried, but failed. And I find other packages also suffer from this (e.g., eza, py-tokenizers). Maybe we need a new download_dependencies phases in spack.build_systems.cargo and spack.build_systems.python_maturin …

[wu-kan]

Just for the py-vl-convert-python package, another solution is using bdists (whl) over sdists (tar.gz).