On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 11:03:34AM -0400, christophe barbe wrote: > Hi, > > I was wondering if you shared my impression that most python programs > are partially broken on powerpc. The last three programs written in > python that I have tried are gdeskcal, straw and eroaster. > The first one has significant display problems (the purpose of this program > is to display a calendar in the background of the desktop). The second one > is unable to fetch new blog entries (again the main purpose of this > soft). And the third one, a burner GUI doesn't display the burning > progress.
"Most" != 3. "Most" python programs I use under powerpc, I have no problems with. Some fiddling with numbers from apt-cache shows ~70 packages that depend on python2.2 that aren't python modules. Note that the three programs you mention share also python2.2-gtk2 as a dependency; I'd look there for GUI problems. The corruption in gdeskcal is likely an endian issue (which is not an uncommon problem when programs are ported from x86 to ppc). > I have not tested but I guess at least gdeskcal and straw work well on > x86. Bold statement :) [actually, they do.] -- |>|\/|< /--------------------------------------------------------------------------\ |David M. Cooke http://arbutus.physics.mcmaster.ca/dmc/ |[EMAIL PROTECTED]
