-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Apr 13, 2008, at 5:50 AM, Gael Varoquaux wrote: > On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 09:41:08PM -0400, Stephen Waterbury wrote: >>> These are all broken and you should report bugs on them. I have >>> reported many for Ubuntu. A system application should only ever >>> depend on the system Python (or interpreter), never on the whims of >>> your $PATH. > >> I agree with Barry here -- I would even go further and say that >> the Python used by system apps (i.e., apps that the OS depends on) >> should be separate and should not be on the default PATH (so the user >> can't use it accidentally), and no non-system apps should use the >> system Python unless specifically installed by the user or sysadmin >> into the system Python's area. > > I agree with you, and not with Barry that all these are broken. If you > look at the apps that use "#!/usr/bin/env", they are all pretty > non-system apps, like for instance "f2py". I think it is good that > these > apps use the default python: I don't want to have f2py to be running > for > another python than my default one. I am actually quite surprised to > see > that ipython is installed with a hardcoded path to /usr/bin/python. > > Anyway, I am not going to bug report anything, as my system works just > fine, thank you.
I'm not sure how you can disagree with me and not with Steve since he and I agree the system apps are broken. ;) Oh well, doesn't matter. Steve has a very interesting idea though, and it makes sense to me. I'm not sure where in the FHS you'd put that, but it makes sense for Python-written system apps to use the hidden Python and for /usr/bin/ python to be one that users can play with. - -Barry -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) iQCVAwUBSAH3jHEjvBPtnXfVAQKIJAP/WWE6i1pjpFJU3Z0mT3AiYeIKZjTfVXjV jC0DAgGj9AWS9TS1eGYWntb65C3ibZK2vsFjkr4Zg32yx1Dl2qvOfQ3yPD5+z7k5 pLP+LfP1U80HDl2poPRJCetnwV/F29IJpEHgNnWZboqrRrPxJlD3WI8L9D4gECP5 I19vl6e/IVo= =3/Pm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
