On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:56:22 +0000 David D Lowe <daviddlowe.fl...@googlemail.com> wrote: >Hello all. > >I'm the author of Epidermis, a theme manager for GNOME. More details >at: http://epidermis.tuxfamily.org > >Until now, I've only ever tested and released Epidermis for Ubuntu, >however, I'm interested making Epidermis support as many Linux >distributions as possible, and I thought Debian would be a good start. > >Epidermis is programmed in Python 2.6. I was surprised to find that >Python 2.6 is not included in Debian unstable, but only in the >experimental repositories. Unfortunately, Epidermis still doesn't work >on Debian. It seems python-gtk2 and other essential packages for >Epidermis have not been upgraded to Python 2.6 in any of Debian's >repositories. > >Am I missing something? Can I get "import gtk" to work under Python >2.6 on Debian? Should I try to port Epidermis back to Python 2.5 or >should I wait for Python 2.6 to be fully supported in Debian >experimental or unstable?
You would have to rebuild pygtk locally using the experimental packages. I expect we'll see Python 2.6 in unstable some time next week. >I'm not looking for a definitive answer, (unless there is one!), just >advice. Thank you. > My advice would be wait. Scott K -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-python-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
