On Sep 16, 2005, at 11:37 AM, Steve Litt wrote:
Does anyone know a Linux distro where dabo "just works"? If so, I
could
download it or buy it, and use it on a separate computer until
Mandrake
catches up with the wxpython requirements.
No, I don't believe that any distros keep very current with
wxPython.
I really hope dabo does not continue requiring later and later
versions of
wxpython as time goes by.
The main reason for requiring later versions has been stability
and bug fixes, not to use some cool new feature or anything. 2.6
represents a stable branch of wxPython, and should be the standard
for a while, unlike the 2.5 branch.
If dabo became one of my core apps, of course I'd
jump through hoops to get it installed, but as something I'm just
trying out,
I want an easy install. Probably most tire kickers are like me.
I tried creating a single install for Linux, but as I built it
on FC2, it only worked on FC2 or later versions. No matter how
statically you try to build things on Linux, there is always some
dynamic linking required, and each distro has its own build of those
critical libraries.
What would be cool is if we had a system with vmware and lots of
different distros installed in various virtual machines, and could
run a script to build a runtime for each distro. But I don't have
such a machine or a copy of vmware, and time is short, too. But
eventually that would be the way to go; we could then add distros as
people requested them.
-- Ed Leafe
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-- http://dabodev.com
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