Arthur Magill a écrit :
> 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!).
>   

Hi Arthur,

I'm volunteer for reports about Ubuntu 8.04
> Arthur
>   

Thomas
>
> 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 False, outdated, failing documentation is such a cliche that I  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
>>
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