System Python modules.

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On 2/2/12 8:11 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote:
> On 2/2/12 6:56 AM, Martin Costabel wrote:
>> On 2/02/12 03:27, Alexander Hansen wrote: []
>>> It looks like mnemosyne really needs one to use the built-in 
>>> Python. We don't actually do modules for that because they're
>>> not very compatible with Fink's approach of using a
>>> self-contained directory structure.
> 
>> I propose to use the directory 
>> /sw/Library/Python/x.y/site-packages/
> 
>> I have been doing this (surreptitiously and, according to the
>> fink validator, illegally) for the pil-systempythonxy package for
>> quite a long time. It works well, if one places Runtimevars:
>> PYTHONPATH: %p/Library/Python/x.y/site-packages into the package
>> description.
> 
> 
> Let's take this to -core (especially as it's a fait accompli at
> this point :-) ).
> 
> Should we add %p/Library to the list of legal directories within
> the Fink file hierarchy, for packages that build against the
> system's toolkits?  (I could envision %p/Library/Python,
> %p/Library/Tcl, ...)
> 
> I see no problems with setting PYTHONPATH within a wrapper script
> for an executable, so such packages use that location for their
> scripts shouldn't be a problem.
> 
> I'm a bit concerned about having to set PYTHONPATH globally,
> however, though it seems like there aren't any good alternatives.
> This doesn't produce any interference with Fink's python packages?

I've made my preference clear in a different thread for not ignoring
the validator.

Anyway, it'd be nice to come to a consensus here.  My understanding is
that pil-systempythonxy can break gildas at runtime, because the
latter also relies on a PYTHONPATH setting.
- -- 
Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
Fink User Liaison
http://finkakh.wordpress.com/
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