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[PATCH core-updates 0/2] Farewell to PYTHONPATH.

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From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
To: 46028 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#46028: [PATCH core-updates 0/2] Farewell to PYTHONPATH.
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2021 12:12:47 -0500

Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Using PYTHONPATH as a mean to discover the Python packages had the following
>> issues:
>>
>>         1. It is not versioned, so different versions of Python would clash if
>>         installed in a shared profile.
>>
>>         2. It would interfere with the host Python site on foreign
>>         distributions, sometimes preventing a a user to login their GDM
>>         session (!).
>>
>>         3. It would take precedence over user installed Python packages
>>         installed through pip.
>>
>>         4. It would leak into Python virtualenvs, which are supposed to create
>>         isolated Python environments.
>
> I've adapted the most problematic uses of PYTHONPATH in the code base
> (mostly (getenv "PYTHONPATH"), which would typically now return #f and
> pushed the branch to cu/farewell-to-pythonpath (it contains ~160
> commits, so I thought it'd be easier to review as a branch).

There's now a third version of this that I pushed to the
cu/farewell-to-pythonpath branch.  It now uses GUIX_PYTHONPATH instead
of GUIX_PYTHONPATH_X_Y, which makes it easier to use in any package
definition (as there's no longer a need to import the (guix build
python-build-system) module for packages not using the Python build
system).

I'll merge it soon if nobody has an objection.

Thanks,

Maxim

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