[csw-maintainers] python library directory

[Romeo Theriault]

On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 7:03 AM, Ben Walton <bwalton at opencsw.org> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I'm planning to tackle the python library directory move from
> /opt/csw/lib/python to /opt/csw/lib/python2.6 in order to remove some
> of the hurdles that modules may experience when working within the CSW
> environment.


I'm not really clear on what the issue is. (?) Is it that some
modules/tools expect the python2.6 directory but it's not there?

This will require rebuilding any package that delivers
> files into /opt/csw/lib/python.  (Project page on the wiki is
> forthcoming.)  In order to not hurt users of the package, I think that
> site.py will need to include /opt/csw/lib/python{,/site-packages} too.
>  This could remove the need for a world rebuild but I'd rather that
> things we control don't depend on this hack.
>

This sounds fine to me. I'll keep an eye out for a email letting us know
it's time to rebuild the modules.

Thanks,
Romeo


>
> Some of our packages deliver files to the proper location already.  I
> haven't looked at why this is yet but my suspicion is that it's due to
> them simply expecting the standard location rather than querying
> python to ask for it...these may or may not need to be re-rolled.
> Hopefully not.
>
> I'm willing to put in a pile of effort on this but once I have the
> base python packages re-rolled, I'd love it if you re-rolled any
> python modules you look after.
>
> I know that Maciej is already looking at python 3.x as the way forward
> and that's definitely the right choice for the long term...I'm hoping
> that this 2.x series fix will be a worthwhile effort for the short to
> medium term.
>
> Comments or feedback?
>
> Thanks
> -Ben
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