Ice 3.4

[sbesson]

• Rename ice.rb as zeroc-ice34 to minimize conflict with mainstream repositories and simplify brew omero --with-ice34 (since Formula.factory() does not properly support tapped names)
• Fix omero formula when installing with Ice 3.4

[joshmoore]

Has this already made it into a build, @sbesson ?

[sbesson]

No waiting for the openmicroscopy homebrew PRs to be merged in first as OMERO-homebrew-install.sh will need extra revamping to test this.
Also we really need to define a strategy for testing these builds as we have only one 10.7 machine on which all the homebrew jobs are currently run sequentially.

[joshmoore]

@sbesson : cross fingers and merge? Do any other PRs need to be kept in sync?

[sbesson]

Two questions at this point regarding Ice Python:

• should we consistently install the Ice python librbary under #{prefix}/python (instead of #{prefix}/lib/pythonxx/site-packages for the current version of zeroc-ice34) This would simplify the environment variables configuration in the walkthrough/installation script
• does it make sense to symlink the ZeroC python libraries in the OMERO libraries?

[joshmoore]

Using OMERO's lib/python directory as an installation location might indeed be a nice compromise.

[sbesson]

OK so that's +1 for symlinking. What about the python directory in the Ice 3.4. formula?

[joshmoore]

Zeroc/python will be there either way, right? Is it just getting symlinked to site-packages? Is the question if we can remove that bit?

[sbesson]

Exactly, should we impose consistency in the naming of our python lib directories across our Ice formulas? and if yes which version

• #{prefix}/python as in current zeroc-ice33
• #{prefix}/lib/pythonxx/site-packages as in current zero-ice34
• #{prefix}/lib/python

[joshmoore]

The "Ice" way is #{prefix}/python, right? If so and that requires the least modification, then I'd probably vote for that.

[sbesson]

See http://hudson.openmicroscopy.org.uk/job/OMERO-homebrew-stable/OSX=10.7.5/258

[joshmoore]

Excellent. @kennethgillen, now we either need 2x as many boxes for running ice33 and ice34 (and eventually 3x with ice35) or we'll have to start rotating on a daily basis. Monday = ice33, Tuesday = ice34, ... 😄 Merging.