On 25/09/17 21:56, Gary E. Miller via devel wrote: > On Mon, 25 Sep 2017 20:26:44 -0700 (PDT) > Fred Wright via devel <devel@ntpsec.org> wrote: > >> 1) Waf misuses get_python_lib() in a way that often gets the wrong >> result, with the effect of installing the libraries in a location >> where Python doesn't look for them. This led to various >> inappropriate recommendations to set PYTHONPATH. PYTHONPATH is a >> special developer kludge, analogous to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, which should >> never be set in normal operation. Code that depends on setting >> PYTHONPATH isn't production-ready. > > The default gentoo PYTHONPATH onlly looks for system installed > python libs. We don't want to install NTPsec python files in the > system reserved directories. Thus PYTHONPATH is the only solution.
I sincerely hope that Gentoo is not that broken. Implementing this misfeature would require patching the Python interpreter. By default Python looks for modules in the "site-packages" directory, with a self descriptive name. Where else would you like to install NTPSec python modules? > Can you split apart your MR? It addresses different issues and > at least #1 is probably not gonna happen. Delivering a 1.0 release that requires fiddling with PYTHONPATH to use the application would make the project look like it is run by amateurs. I think that is not the impression you want to give. Cheers, Daniele _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@ntpsec.org http://lists.ntpsec.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
