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Re: core-updates, let’s go!
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Danny Milosavljevic |
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Re: core-updates, let’s go! |
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Sun, 31 Dec 2017 13:20:37 +0100 |
On Sun, 31 Dec 2017 12:14:16 +0100
Danny Milosavljevic <address@hidden> wrote:
> I'd like to get the patch
>
> [bug#29856] [PATCH core-updates] guix: python-build-system: Modify ".py"
> files in-place.
>
> into this core-updates cycle. What do you all think?
>
> If we don't do it then a lot of Python programs (the ones who use
> "console_scripts" in setup.py as they should) will not work (because we emit
> a shell script wrapper and Python tries to import it - that's going to end
> badly). On the other hand, I don't know the effect on other programs (read:
> I didn't build the world with it - but I did build quite a few Python
> programs). You can try it with the guix package ledger-agent and try to
> invoke "ledger-agent".
>
> The patch only affects files whose names end in ".py" since Python's importer
> will only find those in any case. So its possible ill effect is limited.
^^^ Correction: whose names end in ".py" and that end up in "bin" or "sbin".
Otherwise it would be common.
>
> Hartmut, what do you think?
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