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From: 宋文武 <iyzsong@outlook.com>
To: Phil <phil@beadling.co.uk>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Avoiding PYTHONPATH - latest?
Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2020 19:06:57 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <TYAP286MB0185AEDC7896E698AF4FBDE6A3F20@TYAP286MB0185.JPNP286.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <851rgbqizp.fsf@beadling.co.uk> (phil@beadling.co.uk's message of "Mon, 30 Nov 2020 09:41:46 +0000")

Hello!

Phil <phil@beadling.co.uk> writes:
>> I've been having an argument with myself over the last 4 days about if
>> Guix's use of PYTHONPATH is a necessary evil or avoidable on a foreign OS.
>>
>> I've found references to a similar discussion last year, and reference
>> to using a 'fake virtual environment' (does anyone have a reference to
>> the other thread referenced where fake venvs are demonstrated as not
>> working):

I remembered did that too, I think it works in most cases.
<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2018-03/msg00223.html>

>>
>> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-06/msg00204.html
>> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-06/msg00221.html
>>
>> I had what I think is a similar idea over the weekend and tried it out.
>>
>> Reading the mechanics of venvs as per PEP:
>> https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0405
>>
>> I decided to see if I added a fake pyvenv.cfg to the python.scm package
>> could allow for us to drop the use of PYTHONPATH completely.

I had came up with adding another environment variable
‘GUIX_PYTHON_X_Y_SITE_PACKAGES’:
  <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2018-03/msg00226.html>

But didn’t made it in, feel free take it if useful, thanks!


  reply	other threads:[~2020-12-03 11:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-30  0:22 Avoiding PYTHONPATH - latest? Phil
2020-11-30  9:41 ` Phil
2020-12-03 11:06   ` 宋文武 [this message]
2020-11-30 13:05 ` zimoun
2020-11-30 15:04   ` Phil
2020-12-01 12:39     ` zimoun
2020-12-01 13:28       ` Phil
2020-12-01 14:54         ` zimoun
2020-12-01 18:46           ` Phil

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