[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] ANN: Python for Maemo released

[From: Kalle Vahlman]

On 6/10/05, Rudá Moura <ruda.moura at indt.org.br> wrote:
> We are proudly to announce the first release of Python for Maemo
> platform.
> 
> This is in *alpha* stage yet. Bug fixes, wishes, suggestions, etc, are
> encouraged and welcomed. Please, contact us by mail (ok, bugzilla coming
> soon).
> 
> * Ruda Moura <ruda.moura at indt.org.br>
> * Osvaldo Santana <osvaldo.santana at indt.org.br>
> 
> PyGTK, PyGame, PyNumeric and some packages missing for SDL are also
> included. Please, visit:

The PyGTK build is broken, but that's not your fault :)

Maemo includes only atk version 1.6.1 while the pygtk 2.6.1 wants 1.8.0.

The funny thing is that pygtk will happily compile with atk < 1.8.0
but will fail to run any gtk apps (this is from the pygtk-demo):
[...]
    class PyGtkDemo(gtk.Window):
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'Window'

So, in order to actually use the pygtk packages, one must have atk 1.8.0.
 
Sadly, this is a build-time dependancy so just installing
libatk1.0-dev from sarge will not magically fix this (although
rebuilding the pygtk packages after that will).

> http://www.indt.org.br/maemo/index.html#python

Could that be made an proper apt repository (unless it is one, and the
deb-lines are just not yet on the site ;), with sources too so one
could 'apt-get source --compile' the atk from sarge and the pygtk
packages while waiting for atk 1.8.0 to hit the maemo repo?

-- 
Kalle Vahlman, zuh at iki.fi