On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 02:22:26PM +0000, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * Fionn Behrens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-01-24 10:31]:
> > because it actually runs well on any python version beyond 2.0. If this
> > dependency changed, people who already have python 2.4 installed would
> > not be stopped from using jack.
> 
> No, that's not correct.  This is part of the way Python is handled in
> Debian.  If you look at the files the jack package ships with
>     dpkg -L jack
> you'll see that it puts its modules in /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/
> So you really do need python2.3 to run jack.

This is because of the cursesmodule.so.  Otherwise, we could just make
it python-version agnostic maybe?

I haven't looked into this for years, maybe the cursesmodule is not
needed anymore these days?  Worth to check maybe.


Michael

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