proposal - move bzrlib down a level

[Lalo Martins]

And so says Robert Collins on 01/09/05 17:47...
> Putting bzrlib in a lib subdirectory wont make it harder for folk using
> bzr - it will make it easier. (they have to set their PYTHONPATH
> regardless).

Sorry, this time you're wrong :-)  it works rather well for me without
setting PYTHONPATH.

<technical>
...because my "bzr" is a symlink to the source tree -
`ln -s ~/src/bzr.dev/bzr /usr/local/bin` - and then python will check
where the script is, and put the parent directory in the path implicitly.
</technical>

So if you don't want to add inconvenience, you'd have to do some
sys.path mangling by hand.  (Not terribly hard to do, though.)

Demonstration:
lalo:~> cat >~/tmp/test.py <<EOF
#!/usr/bin/python
import sys
print sys.argv[0]
print sys.path
EOF
lalo:~> chmod a+x ~/tmp/test.py
lalo:~> ln -s ~/tmp/test.py /usr/local/bin
lalo:~> test.py
/usr/local/bin/test.py
['/home/lalo/tmp', '/usr/lib/python24.zip', '/usr/lib/python2.4',
'/usr/lib/python2.4/plat-linux2', '/usr/lib/python2.4/lib-tk',
'/usr/lib/python2.4/lib-dynload',
'/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages',
'/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages',
'/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/HTMLgen',
'/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Nevow',
'/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Numeric',
'/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/PIL',
'/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/gtk-2.0',
'/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/wx-2.5.3-gtk2-unicode',
'/usr/lib/site-python']


best,
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