Re: [PATCH] Yocto: Install full set of python modules in Qt SDK toolchain

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Thu, 2014-09-18 at 11:29 +0100, Laszlo Papp wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 10:30 AM, Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de> wrote:
> > On Thursday, September 18, 2014 at 11:23:13 AM, Laszlo Papp wrote:
> >> On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 10:16 AM, Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de> wrote:
> >> > On Thursday, September 18, 2014 at 11:11:45 AM, Laszlo Papp wrote:
> >> >> Come on, Yocto maintainers, please...
> >> >>
> >> >> Mark sent this change relatively long ago, and it is still in "new"
> >> >> state, sadly. The current SDK shipped _breaks_ any third-party
> >> >> software that uses standard python with regards to the libraries and
> >> >> all that.
> >> >>
> >> >> This is is slightly frustrating. We also face the same issue. :(
> >> >
> >> > Thanks for the reminder, new version which should fix the issues with the
> >> > previous one is on the ML now. You're all on CC.
> >>
> >> I do not think this is an explicit Qt issue, and hence fixing on that
> >> layer sounds like a weird approach. It seems to be a generic python
> >> issue and so, I think it should be addressed in its core. I opened a
> >> new report for this:
> >>
> >> https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6735
> >
> > Then you probably want to add nativesdk-packagegroup-python class into the other
> > toolchain recipes as well . Or even better, into the base SDK toolchain class
> > (is there one?)
> 
> See, I do not understand why this "feature" was integrated the way it
> was. IMHO, it lacks any kind of reality. Has the SDK been ever tested
> against python based host development systems? My assumption is no. I
> do not think there is any sanity in using a _that_ stripped down
> version of python on desktop. It just really hurts the python users
> for the SDK, since there is no simple workaround and we cannot get the
> SDK to let the system python take precedence. This situation is awful
> in my opinion. Who is up for fixing this in the core? Let us have a
> _standard_ python shipped with the SDK by default or do not ship any
> at all.

If you install nativesdk-python-modules into your SDK, you will get
python *and* all its modules installed. If you just install the python
core, you get a cut down python and need to install the modules you
need.

The python SDK has been tested and used in a number of scenarios. Where
a full set of modules is needed, nativesdk-python-modules gets installed
and everyone is happy. If there is some problem with
nativesdk-python-modules, please let us know.

Cheers,

Richard