Linux is a bit of a different beast to Windows and OSX - you can do almost anything with it, and somebody out there will have done something you never imagined.
I think our problems with Linux are largely with OCC itself, rather than pythonOCC. OCC is a big package - I looked into making an RPM available for Fedora, but I don't think my packaging skills are up to it (I'd rather spend the time elsewhere). Building pythonOCC using the setup.py script works well. I think we should work out a dependency list though - that would help get starters to install the right packages first. I'm happy to maintain the wiki page, but I'll need some support for different distros. I can test Fedora here, and generally guess what to do for Debian, Ubuntu, SuSE, Gentoo, etc, but it would be really useful to have someone who could actually test install instructions. A list of people I can ask for particular distributions would be helpful (volunteers welcome!). Arthur Jelle Feringa wrote: > Hi, > > It seems pretty unreasonable that its still hard to get pythonOCC > going on linux. > win32 is doing just fine ( ( even) more power to you Thomas ) and osx > are doing relatively ok ( osx has some troubles with the wxGTK > dependency, but pythonOCC works as advertised ) > > I wonder what options are there to improve linux support. > Binaries perhaps isn't the best of ideas, since linux is such a > diverse platform. > Therefore installation documentation should be pursued with the same > rigor as a binary distribution. > False, outdated, failing documentation is such a cliche that I > *really* would hate to see pythonOCC suffer those consequences. > > I can imagine that splitting up the linux installation wiki to the > different distributions, perhaps even assigning a maintainer ( someone > who validates the wiki info before its set out in the wild ) for those > sections would largely improve the situation. > > Any better ideas? > > Cheers, > > -jelle > > _______________________________________________ > Pythonocc-users mailing list > Pythonocc-users@gna.org > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/pythonocc-users _______________________________________________ Pythonocc-users mailing list Pythonocc-users@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/pythonocc-users
