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Re: tk-update update


From: Ricardo Wurmus
Subject: Re: tk-update update
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2015 12:27:59 +0100

Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:

> … we end up with python2’s pyexpat.so in the search path, and python3
> fails when it tries to load it.  (This change was done so that .so files
> such as tkinter.so can be found even when they don’t lie under Python’s
> prefix.)
>
> My analysis is that it’s “reasonable” to expect breakage when mixing
> python2 and python3 in the same environment, and that the problem here
> is more that standalone programs like ‘gdbus-codegen’ should be wrapped
> to have their PYTHONPATH set in stone.

This is the correct approach in my opinion.  Standalone Python
programmes should really be wrapped so that all required paths are
defined.

~~ Ricardo



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