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

[From: Osvaldo Santana Neto]

Kalle Vahlman wrote:
> 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 :)

First of all: sorry for delay in answer but everybory at INdT (Nokia 
Research Institute @ Brazil) went to a trainning this weekend.

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

Ok. This monday we will fix this and upload the new packages (and source 
packages) for repository.

The main problem is: I really don't know if this update will break some 
other GTK applications.

> 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'

Yes, very strange. I'll sent a bugfix for this problem to Johan (PyGTK guy).

> 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?

We will try to create a Debian repository for MaemoPython and put the 
source packages this week.

Thanks for feedbacks,
Osvaldo (and Ruda)