Re: [e-users] Ubuntu and the Python EFLs

[David S. <on...@gm...>]

On Sun, 26 Aug 2012 22:46:22 +0200 thomasg <th...@gs...>
wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 10:25 PM, Jeff Hoogland
> <Jef...@li...> wrote:
> > So by default the python EFLs are installing themselves to
> > /usr/share/pyshared
> >
> > That would be fine and good if Ubuntu's build of python 2.7 detected
> > installed modules there. By default it doesn't though - import
> > elementary fails.
> >
> > Things need to be installed into /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages
> > for python 2.7 on 12.04 to use/see the modules properly. What is
> > the best way to go about getting the python modules to install to
> > here by default?
> >
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> I'm fairly certain that's a distribution specific problem.
> There is no mention of pyshared in python-efls build system, so this
> comes from the distro.
> Here it uses $PYTHONPATH and $pyexecdir which should be the proper way
> to do it and works for me(tm).
> 
> Sounds like a problem for your distributor I think.

While on that subject, python EFL bindings no longer compile under
Ubuntu 10.04, but they used to.  It's the version of Cython needed,
Ubuntu 10.04 supplies 0.11.2.  It used to work, until recent commits
increased the needed Cython version.  Ubuntu 10.04 is still officially
supported by Canononical, and still in use by lots of people.  Hell,
some versions of 8.04 are still supported.

Yes, I know, Cython is not needed for compiling from tarballs, but I
compile from SVN.  :-P

I have always said that we should use the lowest version of
dependencies that is possible, coz people are still using old versions
for good reasons.  Having bleeding edge dependencies just results in
lots of bleeding.

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