[openlp-dev] Renaming openlp.py

[Tim and Alison Bentley]

2.6 as it needs to be tested and 2.4.6 releases is meant to be small
2.6 is a bigger release with packaging changes.
Another good reason to get 2.6 under way.

On 8 March 2017 at 00:35, Raoul Snyman <raoul at snyman.info> wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> Recently we've had a couple of issues with having an "openlp.py" file as
> our launcher file. We had to change the macOS and Windows builders to
> rename it to "run_openlp.py" and while looking into building snaps recently
> I also came across the same problem.
>
> The core of the problem is that Python's module system uses either the
> file name or a directory with __init__.py in it for the module name. This
> means that we essentially have two "openlp" modules in the same directory,
> which confuses Python immensely.
>
> I propose we rename the file to "run_openlp.py" -- this won't have any
> impact on our users, and not much impact on us. We'll just need to change
> our packaging to take the name change into account (I know what I need to
> do in the Debian package).
>
> Should we do this from 2.4.6 or wait for 2.6?
>
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> Raoul Snyman
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