Moving source4/scripting/python/ to python/

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Thu Dec 27 18:26:18 MST 2012


On Fri, 2012-12-28 at 01:53 +0100, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-12-27 at 19:49 -0500, simo wrote:
> > On Fri, 2012-12-28 at 01:44 +0100, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> > > At the moment our Python namespace lives in source4/scripting/python.
> > > Since all of it lives in the 'samba' package, and most of the modules
> > > then live in another couple of nested modules this means it's a fair
> > > amount of typing to get to whatever files you want to edit.
> > > 
> > > Would anybody object to me moving source4/scripting/python/ to just
> > > python/?
> > 
> > Will this cause any change in packaging or modules names ?
> > If not I see no issue.
> No - it won't impact the Python module names at all, just the place
> where we copy the .py files from when we install to
> $prefix/lib/python/.. or symlink in bin/python.

This seems a very sensible move - the tree has got *way* too deep there,
particularly for the tests that fall even further under that tree.

Andrew Bartlett

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