1 # This file is part of MyPaint.
2 # Copyright (C) 2007-2009 by Martin Renold <martinxyz@gmx.ch>
4 # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
5 # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
6 # the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
7 # (at your option) any later version.
10 This script does all the platform dependent stuff. Its main task is
11 to figure out where the python modules are.
14 # This helps on slow PCs where the python overhead dominates.
15 # (30% higher framerate measured on 533MHz CPU; startup slowdown below 20%)
16 # Note: python -O -O does not help.
26 lib_shared='share/mypaint/'
27 # note: some distros use lib64 instead, they have to edit this...
28 lib_compiled='lib/mypaint/'
30 scriptdir=os.path.dirname(sys.argv[0])
32 # this script is installed as $prefix/bin. We just need $prefix to continue.
33 #pwd=os.getcwd() # why????
34 #dir_install=os.path.normpath(join(pwd,scriptdir)) # why????
35 dir_install=scriptdir # same, except maybe if scriptdir is relative...
37 if os.path.basename(dir_install) == 'bin':
38 prefix=os.path.dirname(dir_install)
39 libpath=join(prefix, lib_shared)
40 libpath_compiled = join(prefix, lib_compiled)
41 sys.path.insert(0, libpath)
42 sys.path.insert(0, libpath_compiled)
44 # we are not installed
47 # checking for import error below
49 try: # just for a nice error message
50 from lib import mypaintlib
53 print "We are not correctly installed or compiled!"
54 print 'script: "%s"' % sys.argv[0]
56 print 'deduced prefix: "%s"' % dir_install
57 print 'lib_shared: "%s"' % libpath
58 print 'lib_compiled: "%s"' % libpath_compiled
63 if not os.path.isdir(join(datapath, 'brushes')):
64 print 'Default brush collection not found! It should have been here:'
68 homepath = os.path.expanduser('~')
70 confpath = join(prefix, 'UserData')
72 confpath = join(homepath, '.mypaint/')
74 from gui import application
75 application.main(datapath, confpath)