On 15-Jan-03 Philip Webb wrote: > I recently (030110) downloaded Sip 3.5 , PyQt 3.5 & PyKDE 3.3.2 . > I am using Mandrake Linux 9.0rc1 , which generally works > correctly. > My machine has a Celeron 466 MHz with RAM 384 MB + swap 384 MB . > > I finally installed it all, but your package needs fine-tuning. > > Sip & PyQt compiled & installed without a problem, but PyQt took > c 2 hr : > you need to mention '-c' there (or more prominently). > > With PyKDE I had to hand-edit build.py to delete 'checkPyQt' (df > & call) > & hand-define the 2 variables: > > pyqt = 'PyQt-3.5' > pyQtSipDir = '/root/libs/PyQt-x11-gpl-3.5/sip'
PyKDE-3.3.2 is produced for sip and PyQt 3.3.2, although it will work with sip and PyQt 3.5. There is a command line switch (-v) for setting the value of pyQtSipDir. (build.py -h) > the latter being where I had unpacked PyQt: surely it should > check ./sip ? > This needs fixing. It checks '../' for PyQt-<version>, among other "likely" locations. The "PyQt-x11-gpl-3.5" location was not a "well-known" location at the time of release of version 3.3.2. The next release will reflect changes in nomenclature current at the time of that release. The present search path is: ["../", "/usr/local/", "/usr/local/src/", "/usr/src/",\ "/usr/share/sip", "/usr/local/share/sip"] > Also, build took 30 min & compile 90 min , even using '-c', > ie 4 hr altogether for a total of 38 files installed. > Is it not possible to provide these files on their own in a > package? No - it depends on the sip, PyQt, Qt and KDE versions of the system you're installing on. There are "unofficial" RPMs at sourceforge.net/pykde, however it's unlikely that there will be RPMs for rc1 distribution releases. My only releases are the PyKDE tarballs. My only experience with Celerons is compiling PyKDE on a 650MHz Celeron. Without the '-c' switch it takes over three hours for PyKDE alone. > The user has to download 150 MB source to get 500 KB > installed files! I'm not sure what you mean here -- PyKDE is under 4MB (tar.gz), PyQt and sip are smaller. The installed files (libs) on the other hand run somewhere 20MB vicinity (python/site-packages). Jim _______________________________________________ PyKDE mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mats.gmd.de/mailman/listinfo/pykde
