[sugar] Sugar Python environment

[Dan Williams]

On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 10:55 -0500, Ian Bicking wrote:
> Dan Williams wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 09:49 +0200, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
> >> Ian Bicking wrote:
> >>> Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
> >>>> sugar-jhbuild can build python already. The problem is that we still 
> >>>> depend on some system installed bindings. dbus and avahi that I can 
> >>>> think of. Both runs a system daemon, so I'm not sure about the best 
> >>>> way to deal with them.
> >>> I was reading in the dbus documentation that even the system-level 
> >>> daemon can be overridden by an environmental variable.  So maybe it is 
> >>> feasible to build our own dbus?
> >> It might be possible. We need to check with J5 when he is back from aKademy.
> > 
> > I think it is quite possible.  However, you'd probably need a new system
> > dbus config file, if nothing else.  But here's the interesting part: how
> > does libdbus talk to the system bus?  I don't know whether the path to
> > the system bus' Unix domain socket is hardcoded in libdbus at build
> > time, or what.  We can certainly change the location of the system bus
> > daemon's socket in system.conf, but I'm unsure how to point libdbus
> > there.  It's not an environment variable like the session bus AFAIK.
> 
> The docs specifically mentioned that the location of the system bus is 
> hardcoded, but you can still override it with an environmental variable. 
>   (It didn't mention what that variable was, but this was just in the 
> tutorial.)

Ok, in that case, we need to build our own D-Bus and our own libdbus,
and change the location of the socket.  That seems like a really odd
road to go down.  I don't think we want to start duplicating the entire
system inside jhbuild, and system dbus would probably be where I draw
the line.  That way leads to pain with little benefit :)

Dan