On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, Gregor Hoffleit wrote:
> I have put together a set of experimental Python 1.5.2c1 packages. To use
> them with apt, try the following line:
>
[...]
>
> * Python 1.5.2 release candidate 1.
>
> * libpython1.5.so reworked. Please report any anomalities! If I don't
> get any negative feedback, the next potato packages will use a shared
> libpython for the first time in Debian history ;-)
>
Excellent!
>
> * break sketch 0.5.4. This is a problem with the new multi-threaded
> Tkinter and sketch' Pax modules. Sketch' author will try to fix this,
> in the meantime sketch will have to provide an alternative
> python-tk-nothreads package.
>
This should be thought out very well... There should be a way to tell
sketch to use a "private _tkinter", and have the standard _tkinter
available as well (IMHO)
>
> * python-doc 1.5.2. Is html enough, or should I also include
> python-doc-ps and python-doc-pdf.
>
I think that having both ps and pdf is a bit overkill; look out for
a4/letter, and maybe make two packages like python-doc-ps-a4 and
python-doc-ps-ltr instead of a single one (or pdf-a4 and pdf-letter, if
the consesus is pdf being better than ps). I seem to remember there is now
a complete info set, which I sure would like to install for use within
{x,}emacs, but I don't know how many of debian/python users would find a
need for it.
Have a nice forthweek.
l.
