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Re: Down with PYTHONPATH!
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Hartmut Goebel |
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Re: Down with PYTHONPATH! |
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Sat, 15 Jun 2019 15:35:56 +0200 |
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Am 14.06.19 um 10:14 schrieb Ricardo Wurmus:
I welcome your initiative. Fixing this finally is on my todo-list since
long.
> here’s a half-baked idea that I think is worth considering: let’s patch
> our Python package to respect GUIX_PYTHONPATH and use GUIX_PYTHONPATH in
> our wrappers.
I have a *strong* opinion against this, as this would just replace one
cludge by another one. See below for rational.
IMO the only sustainable solution it to patch the interpreter
(Modules/getpath.c) to determine the correct "installation path"
(profile). I did quite some work on this last year, but had no time to
finish it. I still have no time for finishing, but I should be able to
hand-over my results (including prepared patches for Python 3.7).
Rational for GUIX_PYTHONPATH being a cludge (IMHO)
- Constraint: We must keep the expected behavior of PYTHONPATH as
documented for CPython. This esp. means, we must not simply substitute
in the source PYTHON_PATH by GUIX_PYTHONPATH, but need to *add* code.
- When implementing GUIX_PYTHONPATH in site.py or site-cutomize.py, it
will fail if python is run using -S (disable the import of the module
site, and thus site-customize).
- When implementing GUIX_PYTHONPATH in getpath.c, we need to copy the
current code for PYTHONPATH, which means we will end up with a not so
short patch. And even then, this special care needs to be taken to not
leak GUIX_PYTHONPATH from one profile to the other.
- We still need a wrapper (which caused a lot of problems, we already
solve. But maybe other problem will arise).
- If patching getpath.c anyway, we could go for interpreter to determine
the correct "installation path" (see above).
--
Regards
Hartmut Goebel
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