[sugar] Sugar Python environment

Owen Williams ywwg
Wed Sep 27 16:23:40 EDT 2006


On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 14:54 -0500, Ian Bicking wrote:
> Owen Williams wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 14:26 -0500, Ian Bicking wrote:
> >> I'm thinking that the Sugar jhbuild should probably use 
> >> virtual-python.py: http://peak.telecommunity.com/dist/virtual-python.py
> >>
> >> Alternately (and particularly if OLPC goes to Python 2.5), Python should 
> >> be built as part of the build process.  virtual-python basically 
> >> symlinks Python so it doesn't pick anything up from the global 
> >> installation.  It's like building a custom Python, but faster since it 
> >> doesn't actually build anything.
> > 
> > I had asked for this feature, so Marco pushed python into jhbuild.  It
> > was a start, but it didn't have the dbus bindings.  If we use a custom
> > python, someone will need to make sure that all of the bindings olpc
> > supports are actually installed by jhbuild.
> 
> When you say he pushed python into jhbuild, do you mean the $PYTHONPATH 
> stuff?

He put Python 2.4.3 into jhbuild, ie the whole thing I think.


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