Re: [Jython-dev] Building jython locally, PyXML, cvs, eclipse, bug test nr.

[Ype K. <yk...@xs...>]

Finn,

On Monday 16 September 2002 08:00, Finn Bock wrote:
> [Ype Kingma]
>
> > After cleaning and another checkout the build now fails during
> > target copy-dist:
> > /usr/lib/python2.2/Lib not found at build.xml line 299.
> > No Lib directory is present in the file list of the CPython 2.2 rpm.
> > Directory /usr/lib/python2.2 exists.
>
> With a whole lot of .py files?

Yep. You knew. Almost 1000, see below.

<snip>

> I just committed a change to build.xml where the copying of PyXML
> depends on whether PyXmlHome is defined and where the "Lib" and the
> python executable have their own properties.
>
> So try to remove the definition of PyXmlHome from your ant.properties
> and add definitions for:
>
>     python.lib=3D/usr/lib/python2.2
>     python.exe=3D/usr/bin/python
>
> or whatever matches the directory with the .py standard modules and the
> python executable.

ant now builds successfully (It copied 931 files into Lib, and 33 into th=
e
demo dir)
Thanks a lot.

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> >>Could you eventually make a list of suggestions of things we can do t=
o
> >>make it easier to dig into the sources?
> >
> > Putting all the 2.2 CPython .py files in the jython repository could =
make
> > a checkout complete. OTOH it might make it more difficult to keep the=
se
> > copies in sync with CPython.
>
> I'm not sure exactly what to do on this issue. There are very good
> arguments for including the CPython modules in the jython CVS. The only
> real argument for doing what we do now is purity: Since the files are
> owned and maintained by python-dev they should only be exist in their C=
VS.
>
> I don't think it will be much more difficult to maintain a copy of the
> files in our CVS, we only need to sync the files when we start
> developing on version N+1 and it may allow us to update the library mor=
e
> slowly and avoiding the problems when we update the library while our
> core still can't handle all the N+1 features.
>
> Should we consider changing strategy? Comments anyone?

I could check them out directly from the python CVS, if CVS allows me
checkout from two repositories. Can CVS work that way?

<snip>

Thanks again,
Ype