Re: core-updates, let’s go!

[Danny Milosavljevic]

On Sun, 31 Dec 2017 12:14:16 +0100
Danny Milosavljevic <address@hidden> wrote:

> I'd like to get the patch
> 
>     [bug#29856] [PATCH core-updates] guix: python-build-system:  Modify ".py" 
> files in-place.
> 
> into this core-updates cycle.  What do you all think?
> 
> If we don't do it then a lot of Python programs (the ones who use 
> "console_scripts" in setup.py as they should) will not work (because we emit 
> a shell script wrapper and Python tries to import it - that's going to end 
> badly).  On the other hand, I don't know the effect on other programs (read: 
> I didn't build the world with it - but I did build quite a few Python 
> programs).  You can try it with the guix package ledger-agent and try to 
> invoke "ledger-agent".
> 
> The patch only affects files whose names end in ".py" since Python's importer 
> will only find those in any case.  So its possible ill effect is limited.

^^^ Correction: whose names end in ".py" and that end up in "bin" or "sbin".  
Otherwise it would be common.

> 
> Hartmut, what do you think?



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