-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2005-01-07, Paul Rubin <http> wrote: > Roman Suzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I do not like the idea of having stubs. Once I had an experience working with >> CPAN (I tried to install SpamAssassin and it required some specific modules.) >> "Magic" install shell, provided by Perl, upgraded half the Perl distro, >> including newer version of Perl! >> >> So, I do like Python distutils better. it is not a major problem to >> install something even if it required something else. Of course, >> this depends on the package authors. > > But distutils don't help the problem that the module requires stuff > that's missing. That's what happened with the thing I downloaded last > week, that needed wxPython. I don't understand why the author felt he > had to use wxPython instead of tkinter, since it wasn't a really fancy > gui, but after already-described hassles trying to instead wxPython, I > just used the application's command line interface instead, which > worked fine. But if wxPython is so much better, maybe it's time for > Python to include it. > > I want to start using Audacity pretty soon, which I think really does > depend on wxPython, so I'm going to have to deal with this wxPython > installation problem which is definitely not completely trivial. What > a pain. >
I've not experienced problems installing wxPython on Debian (unstable). It just *works* out of the box with apt-get. Perhaps this is more of a problem with the package maintainers? Adam - -- http://www.monkeez.org PGP key: 7111B833 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFB3lgd9F0IVXERuDMRAu49AJ4lBRrF10nHLtBK9NBVuznOnfJH/QCgx0vV Oqk8Vx/nASKJXvakVEYtHII= =kThY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
