Andrew Benton wrote: > On Sun, 01 Apr 2012 22:02:30 +0100 > Ken Moffat <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I've now completed my (partial) gnome build on my new machine. >> One of the purposes of this was to try using py2cairo instead of >> pycairo - I assume the name has been changed from pycairo to tell >> people that its a python2 program, not python3. Anyway, the only >> packages in the book which use it (unless my grep missed something) >> are pygobject{2,3} and orca. I've built all of these without >> problems. >> >> Any objections to me removing pycairo and pointing the links to >> py2cairo ? > > Personally I don't install pycairo as nothing I install uses it. I do > install py2cairo for a couple of things. I thought apps would be moving > (like pycairo) from python 2 to python 3 but there doesn't seem to be > much sign of that happening. I suppose there is not much reason to have > pycairo (the python 3 version) in the book at the moment but if it's > needed in the future (if more apps start to use python 3) it can be put > back in. I don't mind.
If it's not being used by anything, it would probably be better to comment it out. If it takes some time for other apps to use it, then it will probably be a later version when it is needed. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
