Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] using python in installation scripts

[Amit Dor-Shifer]

Great. 10x!
Amit

Alec Warner wrote:
>  On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 1:17 AM, Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> wrote:
> Amit Dor-Shifer wrote:
> >>> I want to read/write an XML file while an ebuild executes. Since I'm
> >>> unaware of any XML support in bash, I'm thinking of using python: I'd
> >>> write some python code and bundle it somehow into the package, so that
> >>> is shall be usable from pkg_XXX scripts.
> >>>
> >>> I browsed the tree and couldn't find other ebuilds that use python
> (nor
> >>> perl, for that matter),  so I'm doing a sanity check: is this a wrong
> >>> path to follow? Appreciate comments. 10x.
> >>> Amit
> You can use whatever you like as long as you declare it in your
> build-time dependencies (DEPEND). If you require that python be
> built with the xml USE flag then you should set EAPI="2" and
> DEPEND="dev-lang/python[xml]".
>
> > Slight caveat, you can do whatever you want as long as it isn't in
> > global scope.  Putting a python script in FILESDIR or bundling it with
> > the package is standard procedure, I know a bunch of tcl stuff used to
> > use tcl to install itself and distutils.eclass for example runs
> > setup.py to install things, so its nothing new.
>
> > -A
>
> >
> >