[maemo-developers] Issues with Python and maemo-optify

[From: Marius Vollmer]

ext Andrew Flegg <andrew at bleb.org> writes:

> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 08:17, Marius Vollmer <marius.vollmer at nokia.com> wrote:
>> ext Anderson Lizardo <anderson.lizardo at openbossa.org> writes:
>>
>>> 1) hack Python to not rely on paths returned by readlink()
>>
>> What about only ignoring the result of readlink when it starts with
>> /opt/maemo?  I.e., symlinks into /opt/maemo are not considered to be
>> symlinks at all.
>
> Where would you consider that change made? Every point in Python where
> it calls readlink()?

Yes.  Every point where it uses the result of readlink to adjust its
module load path.  There can't be that many...