[sugar] Sugar Python environment

[Owen Williams]

On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 15:25 -0500, Ian Bicking wrote:
> Owen Williams wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 14:54 -0500, Ian Bicking wrote:
> >> Owen Williams wrote:
> >>> On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 14:26 -0500, Ian Bicking wrote:
> >>>> I'm thinking that the Sugar jhbuild should probably use 
> >>>> virtual-python.py: http://peak.telecommunity.com/dist/virtual-python.py
> >>>>
> >>>> Alternately (and particularly if OLPC goes to Python 2.5), Python should 
> >>>> be built as part of the build process.  virtual-python basically 
> >>>> symlinks Python so it doesn't pick anything up from the global 
> >>>> installation.  It's like building a custom Python, but faster since it 
> >>>> doesn't actually build anything.
> >>> I had asked for this feature, so Marco pushed python into jhbuild.  It
> >>> was a start, but it didn't have the dbus bindings.  If we use a custom
> >>> python, someone will need to make sure that all of the bindings olpc
> >>> supports are actually installed by jhbuild.
> >> When you say he pushed python into jhbuild, do you mean the $PYTHONPATH 
> >> stuff?
> > 
> > He put Python 2.4.3 into jhbuild, ie the whole thing I think.
> 
> Is it hiding from me, or did I not build it somehow?  I'd expect 
> build/bin/python to exist, plus build/lib/python2.4 should be full of 
> stdlib modules.  If it's not there but planned to be there, then forget 
> about virtual-python, a custom build will cover this issue for me.
> 

try a git pull in your jhbuild folder and then ./sugar-jhbuild buildone
python.  It's probably not built by default.

owen