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Re: [ITP] python-cairo
On 04/09/2009 15:37, Charles Wilson wrote:
I notice that you do not include the documentation. If this is
intentional, then you should probably update the Cygwin README to point
to its canonical web location:
http://cairographics.org/documentation/pycairo/
Alternatively, add
http://www.cairographics.org/releases/${PN}-${PV}-docs-html.tar.gz as an
additional SRC_URI, install them, and add a -doc package. Dealer's choice.
I have updated the webpage in the README to the pycairo's page on
cairographics.org, which has a link. pycairo 1.8.8 was just released,
so I'll include that when I ship that update.
However: the upstream README claims:
Dependencies
------------
cairo>= 1.8.6
Python>= 2.6
while the cygwin README says:
Runtime requirements:
...
python-2.5.4-10
As you saw yourself, it builds and works just fine with 2.5, and I have
yet to find an explanation for why the requirement was bumped to 2.6.
Debian also ships this for 2.5 using a different patch (they build with
distutils, I build with autotools).
But the worst part of it is, the only version of python available from
release-2 is 2.5.2-1. What's the deal?
Ports has provided a python package for a while, the primary difference
being that Tkinter uses Ports' *NIX/X11 Tcl/Tk instead of the distro's
Win32 version. This doesn't affect anything Python related that I'm
trying to ship in the distro.
Thanks for the review.
Yaakov