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[Olivier Girard <eolinwen@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Everybody
Interresting precision but if there are a problem, i have creates at
lp:~eolinwen/openshot/cenwen a secure copie. Of course evreybody can use it,
it's the revision 139.
Thanks, Olivier

2009/8/30 Jonathan Thomas <jonathan.oomph@xxxxxxxxx>

> TJ,
> I was thinking about all of the PATH changes you are making, and just
> wanted to be sure you understood something (of course this is without seeing
> your code).  The 1st argument of any Python program is the path that the
> python script was started from (i.e. args[0] =
> "/usr/share/openshot/main/OpenShot.py").  Everywhere in OpenShot I use this
> "path" as the base of my file paths.  So, no matter where OpenShot lives on
> the file system, it will currently work.
>
> By using a bash script to start OpenShot, the 1st arg is still correct,
> since we're kicking off the Python interpretter with the correct path.  If
> wen use a Python script is in the bin, and import OpenShot.py, then the 1st
> arg is no longer the path of OpenShot, and thus all of the paths will break
> accross OpenShot.
>
> It seems like a lot of work to redo all of the paths in OpenShot just to
> not use a bash script to kick off the program.  I just wanted to be sure you
> understood this.  If the DEBIAN packaging rules say we have to use a Python
> script to kick off a Python program, then that's fine.  But if nobody cares
> how the /bin works, then I would argue for not changing all of this.
>
> Thanks,
> -Jonathan
>
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