[Nix-dev] PyQt and packaging python-qscintilla

[Daniel Hlynskyi]

Ah, the problem was fixed with lndir. That is basically way 3), but does
not use extra space on disk

mkdir -p $out
lndir ${pkgs.pyqt4} $out

2015-07-19 17:36 GMT+00:00 Daniel Hlynskyi <abcz2.uprola at gmail.com>:

> For PyQt there is a library python-qscintilla, which is Python binding to
> qscintilla editor control. PyQt is already packaged here [1].
>
> The problem with packaging python-qscintilla is: it wants to be in PyQt
> directory. So we can do
>
>   import PyQt4
>   import PyQt4.Qsci
>
> Now [2] I have three choices how to resume packaging :
>
> 1) ask if someone knows hot to trick Python and sip where the Qsci.so is
> located (python-qscintilla creates .so file, not .py). I've tried to put
> Qsci.so into PYTHONPATH but Python doesn't load .so files (or I didn't
> figure out how it works)
>
> 2) modify PyQt, so it has optional argument qscintilla:
>
>    pyqt4 = { pkgs, qscintilla ? null, ..} : ...
>
> and refer to python-qscintilla as
>
>    [ pkgs.python27Packages.pyqt4 { pkgs = self.pkgs, qscintilla =
> pkgs.qscintilla } ]
>
> (alternative: implement it as override in nixpkgs)
>
> 3) create own build of PyQt in python-qscintilla. This will not change
> existing PyQt expression
>
> Which is better to continue and how to do it best?
>
> [1]
> https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/development/python-modules/pyqt/
> [2] https://gist.github.com/danbst/e4199acb6b4dee9cdfbf
>
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