Hi all,
Wouldn't it be a good thing to update a bit the Python distribution?
Specifically:
1. cooker has python-numeric-17.3.0 while that package is up to version 20,
with significant changes. Please update this.
2. Please include the Qt/Kde python bindings from The Kompany. See
http://www.thekompany.com/projects/pykde/?dhtml_ok=1 for details.
3. Please include the python-Image Magick bindings (the Perl ones are in
already). Details at
http://starship.python.net/crew/zack/pymagick
These changes would make Mandrake's python support more comparable to its
remarkable packaging of perl-related tools. With python's growing
popularity, I think this can only be a good thing for Mandrake.
Sice I know that space is tight, I would suggest some candidates for
"killing" in cooker/LM8.1 to make space for the python stuff:
1- Klyx: this is a kde port of lyx, but made out of a *Very* old codebase.
Please remove it, nobody should use this for production work (the "real"
lyx has evolved immensely since the code fork that produced klyx). Normal
Lyx, the new one, is already part of Mandrake anyway so there's no need to
add anything.
2- Games: some of the arcade type games are *huge*. I have the impression
that people who are seriously into gaming buy the nice fancy commercial
stuff, and those who are not (like me) would rather not have all that space
taken up. Maybe leave the little ones only?
Regards,
Fernando.
