Re: [gentoo-java] javatoolkit: new project layout

[Petteri Räty]

Fabian Groffen kirjoitti:
> On 07-01-2008 22:29:46 +0200, Petteri Räty wrote:
>> Fabian Groffen kirjoitti:
>>> would it be possible to do it like we do it in Portage?
>>>
>>>  sys.path.insert(0, os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.  realpath(__file__))), "pym"))
>>>
>> Or we could just depend on a new enough Portage where just import portage
>> works. This probably works in prefix too?
>
> Well... one can only do "import portage" if one's really sure one uses a
> Gentoo patched python.  (Admittedly this is in general the case.)
> Portage code itself uses a guard to extend the python path in case the
> import fails.
>
> However, doing "import portage" slows you down a lot, so if you don't
> really need it, I would disadvice to do it.
>
>>> The globs in findclass I guess we'll have to patch in the prefix case,
>>> though I'm wondering if that doesn't need ROOT support anyway?
>>> If you'd really want to make be happy you'd do a
>>>   try:
>>>     from portage.const import EPREFIX
>>>   catch ImportError:
>>>     EPREFIX = ''
>>>
>>>   pkg = glob.glob(EPREFIX + '/usr/share/*/package.env')
>> Well you build against the stuff in / so ROOT should not be used I think.
>
> I'm not sure how much root support works in Java.  I just imagined that
> you'd run the tool on a chroot or something.
>

Yeah but in chroot you would of course use /

Regards,
Petteri