Changing python-wrapper to handle lib/ etc.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Andreas Enge <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 10:34:48AM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> Ah right.  And what if you again remove Python from ‘inputs’, and add
>>   #:python ,python
>> to the arguments?
>> That means it will use the actual Python 3.x package, not the wrapper,
>> so everything will be visible.  The downside is that there will be no
>> ‘python’ command, only ‘python3’.
>> 
>> Perhaps the right fix will be to change ‘python-wrapper’ to symlink the
>> ‘lib’ sub-directory of ‘python’.
>
> As already stated, I think we should add python as a propagated input to
> python-wrapper. The symlinks are just needed between the differently named
> python and python3.
>
> Should we give this a try?

I think our messages crossed each other; I wrote:

  The other option would have been to add ‘python’ to ‘propagated-inputs’,
  which would also have taken care of sub-directories other than lib/.

  As a side-effect, it would also pull in the ‘python3’, ‘pydoc3’,
  etc. commands, but I think it cannot hurt.

So yes, I think we should try this.

What about making this change in a branch, letting Hydra build it, and
then merge it if nothing broke?

We’ll also need the patch from
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2014-10/msg00364.html> in
this branch.

Do you want to take care of it?  :-)

TIA,
Ludo’.