On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 10:19 PM, Jeff Johnson <n3npq@mac.com> wrote:
> So far I've (quite successfully ;-) avoided the issue
> of where/how/what/when per-interpreter initialization
> should come from.
>
> Currently, the initialization is compiled in with the
> interpreter wrappers, which was quick and easy devel.
>
> E.g., here's what %{python:...} loads when instantiated:
>
> #if defined(WITH_PYTHONEMBED)
> static const char * rpmpythonInitStringIO = "\
> import sys\n\
> from cStringIO import StringIO\n\
> sys.stdout = StringIO()\n\
> import rpm\n\
> ";
> #endif
>
> That goop needs to be slurped from an
> external configure file somehow.
>
> Which means that RPM needs to commit to
> some convention for per-interpreter initialization.
>
> What has been wired up with Lua was perfectly OK when
> just LUA was embedded. But those conventions, and
> --rpmlua, just aren't gonna scale to 5 interpreters.
>
> What I'd like to see is a per-interpreter config macro
> carrying the usual colon separated paths that are slurped
> and loaded when an embedded interpreter is instantiated.
>
> What I'd like to fix, is the hardwired compiled in paths
> for LUA, and remove --rpmlua as a compiled in option.
> A popt alias should suffice for all the emebedded interpreters,
> the only "feature" reversion is attempting to run
> the rpm executable without _ANY_ configuration. These
> days, while you can still override everything in
> RPM from the CLI, its highly unlikely you will achieve
> much joy, as way too much rpm configuration is already
> being loaded from all over the place. JMHO, YMMV.
>
> I'll wire up some KISS convention like
>        /usr/lib/rpm/embed/{ruby,...}.init
> in a flash if there's consensus.
>
> (new topic)
> I haven't a clue where to install js/libjsm.so, JavaScript
> has no clear conventional guidance for paths to search for
> extension modules. Shall I just dump libjsm.so into
> /usr/lib/rpm, or should I attempt /usr/lib/rpm/js/*
> instead?

Probably,but i can be wrong, it is better for FHS and multilib support
use

/usr/lib/rpm/%{ARCH}/

for shared lib destination.

Regards