On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 16:17:26 +0100, Marc Weber <marco-owe...@gmx.de> wrote: > Excerpts from Florian Friesdorf's message of Sat Feb 18 00:46:01 +0100 2012: > > Attached is a patchset to achieve pureness for python packages and > > handle dependencies via pth files. > Can you describe what you mean by "handling dependencies using pth > files'? > > My (probably limiting) understanding of .pth files was that it its a way > to add additional subdirectories to sys.path and that PYTHONPATH is > likely to miss interpreting them. (I may be wrong about that). > > So do you use .pth files to achieve something similar to rpath? or what > are you doing? > > Thus if you have this dependency chain: > A -> B -> C > > will it be enough to install A into your ~/.nix-profile and B and C > python files will be found automatically without putting them into > ~/.nix-profile/..../python-sites or such?
Yes - that is what is happening, if you include the packages site.py, that processes pth files in all PYTHONPATH components. Have a look at my patches, there are a lot of comments. -- Florian Friesdorf <f...@chaoflow.net> GPG FPR: 7A13 5EEE 1421 9FC2 108D BAAF 38F8 99A3 0C45 F083 Jabber/XMPP: f...@chaoflow.net IRC: chaoflow on freenode,ircnet,blafasel,OFTC
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