On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 02:22:26PM -0500, joehill wrote:
> AttributeError: Search instance has no attribute 'window'

Well, this is a rox problem now, thankfully, not ours. :-)

> Sooooo, I'm gonna go bug them back at rox. One thing I wanted to clarify 
> (besides "what is pygtk.pth, and why do you hate it so?") was about the 

pygtk.pth is what tells Python to look in the gtk-2.0 or gtk-1.2
directories by default, and I use it as shorthand to refer to the whole
pygtk.py debacle. I hate this solution because it is has utterly
confusing semantics and has generated about 50% of the list traffic for
the last 4 months or so.

My only comfort is the fact that most distributions will have this fixed
in one way or another in the future. Hopefully "near future".

> prefix suggestion:
> I used --prefix=/usr, but I went back and ran python -v after that and 
> got this response:
> 
>   /usr/lib/python2.2/site.pyc matches /usr/lib/python2.2/site.py
> 
> so is --prefix=/usr appropriate? or do I need to also reinstall python 

This means Python is installed, by default, to /usr. --prefix=/usr is
correct.

> (please say no...) and will having pygtk installed in a non-standard 
> location cause problems with other Python-based apps than Rox?

There is no need to reinstall Python, and all PyGTK apps will now find
pygtk correctly. One thing that many ignore is that the default prefix
of /usr/local *MAY NOT BE CORRECT* for your system. If your Python is
installed by default to /usr, it definitely isn't - you *must use*
--prefix=/usr instead. Just because it's default, in this case, doesn't
mean it's correct. 

Unfortunately.

Take care,
--
Christian Reis, Senior Engineer, Async Open Source, Brazil.
http://async.com.br/~kiko/ | [+55 16] 261 2331 | NMFL
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