[maemo-developers] Continued problems with python dependencies

[From: Jeremiah Foster]

On Jun 7, 2009, at 14:07, Thomas Perl wrote:

> 2009/6/7 Jeremiah C. Foster <jeremiah.foster at pobox.com>:
>> On Thu, 2009-06-04 at 13:55 -0400, Anderson Lizardo wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Jeremiah Foster
>>> <jeremiah at jeremiahfoster.com> wrote:
>>>>  >* python-mokoui : no idea which package is this. Jeremiah/ 
>>>> Niels: can
>>>>  > it be added the your automatic building task?
>>>>
>>>> This package has been sent to the fremantle autobuilder.
>>>
>>> I think the original maintainer has said that it should not be
>>> necessary anymore and that the package that broke because of it
>>> will/was fixed (if I remember correctly)
>>
>> It does not build in fremantle, at least right now. It is called
>> libmokoui and I am going to try to get the errors fixed.
>
> FYI: libmokoui is not really necessary anymore, because there's
> hildon.PannableArea for the finger-scroll replacement of
> gtk.ScrolledWindow now (mokoui provided mokoui.FingerScroll). I have
> uploaded libmokoui to Diablo for that purpose (getting finger
> scrolling in my app) some months ago, in Fremantle this should not be
> needed, developers should use PannableArea instead, and my code
> already uses hildon.FingerScroll instead of mokoui on Fremantle.
>
> Providing mokoui2 in Fremantle could lead to developer confusion about
> which library/widget they should choose for finger scrolling when
> Hildon's PannableArea is the "native" one.

Thanks for the update Thomas, I will wait on building libmokoui and  
leave it in diablo at least for now.

Jeremiah