From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pjotr Prins Subject: Re: PYTHONPATH woes Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2018 00:54:54 +0100 Message-ID: <20180223235454.GA7215@thebird.nl> References: <87371tqbyb.fsf@elephly.net> <20180223165953.GA6088@thebird.nl> <87r2pbpkfl.fsf@elephly.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57302) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1epNEr-0003iS-MX for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Feb 2018 18:58:57 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1epNEl-0004B1-GH for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Feb 2018 18:58:53 -0500 Received: from mail.thebird.nl ([95.154.246.10]:39768) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1epNEl-00049L-9S for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Feb 2018 18:58:47 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87r2pbpkfl.fsf@elephly.net> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Ricardo Wurmus Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 08:36:46PM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > Patching Python 2 is still an option, but I=E2=80=99d like to explore (= and > understand) upstream mechanisms first. I don't think it will be radical and something upstream can adopt. We can at least suggest it ;) > > With Ruby we have a similar interpreter issue - even more fine graine= d > > between versions. It is a pain. But there is no real solution other > > than using profiles properly. >=20 > Do Ruby *executables* also suffer from accidental dependency injection > as Ribodiff does in this case? Main problem is that gems are stored in major versions, e.g. 2.4. So Ruby 2.4.1 stores modules in the same path as 2.4.2. I think that is a mistake. Theoretically gems are compatible... But you can see the potential mess.