Nikita Karetnikov <nik...@karetnikov.org> skribis: >> With these changes in place, OK to commit. > > I've just pushed both patches. Please have a look. > >> To answer your previous question, this ‘wrap’ phase serves a different >> (but related) purpose than the ‘native-search-paths’ thing: it ensures >> that the ‘bzr’ program, when run by the user, finds all its Python >> modules. > > I know. But why do we need to use 'native-search-paths' to set > PYTHONPATH if we wrap all executables anyway? What is the purpose of > 'native-search-paths' in this case?
Not all Python packages have binaries, and when they do, they can often be used either as stand-alone binaries or as Python modules. Does that clarify? Ludo’.
