On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 4:46 AM, Eric Bavier <ericbav...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 10:18 AM, Eric Bavier <ericbav...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 9:40 AM, Federico Beffa <be...@ieee.org> wrote: >>> >>> > Eric Bavier <ericbav...@gmail.com> skribis: >>> > >>> >> * gnu/packages/gtk.scm (python2-pygtk): New variable. >>> > >>> >>> I notice that most python packages are defined for python 3 and then a >>> python2 package is generated with the procedure 'package-with-python2'. >>> Is pygtk problematic with python 3? >> >> >> It has been a while since I did the packaging work for this python2-pygtk, >> and I seem to recall that there was some sort of difficulty with python3. > > > It looks possible, but from what I can tell, it might require more work on > the packages that pygtk depends on, some of which aren't compatible with > python3 or would requires updates to work with python3. >
I noticed that pygtk depends on pycairo and the home page of the latter provides two sources: one for python3 and one for python2. Maybe that's the package causing some troubles. http://cairographics.org/pycairo/ Thanks for looking into this! Fede
