On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 10:01 PM, Terry Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
My experience shows why Linux is not exactly taking the world by
storm.
Heh, I think the reasons may be a little more various and complicated
than that.
It wasn't the source install that wiped gnome. Dis-installing
On Mar 6, 8:19 am, Ville M. Vainio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
No, you can't just remove system python installation like that, it's a
feature. And a slight drawback of python being so ubiquitous today :-)
Thanks for this. Saves me having to ask on comp.lang.python.
Edward
On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 11:10 AM, Terry Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
First I build Tcl 8.5.1 from source
...
then Tk 8.5.1 from source
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then python from source
Thanks!
Edward
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On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 7:13 PM, Edward K. Ream [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In short, all OS's are, or can be made to be, pretty much the same.
That being so, Linux does indeed have real advantages for
programmers. It's so cool to be able to enable thousands of packages
from the package
There appears to be a serious problem on my Linux install.
Unit tests are (sometimes) crashing with the following message:
The program 'leo.py received an X Window System error.
Followed by debugging instructions (!)
It's possible that the threading colorizer could be the culprit.
Threads
On Mar 5, 10:20 am, Edward K. Ream [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There appears to be a serious problem on my Linux install.
I should mention that the failures occur with the latest revision (56)
of the bzr trunk. This revision contains the proposed code for Leo
4.4.8 b1. Any further revisions
On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 08:26:04 -0800 (PST)
Edward K. Ream [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I suspect recent Python/Tkinter bugs are causing the X crash. Really,
this kind of crash should never arise with normal Python bugs.
Oddly enough I have a similar issue. I'm getting seg. faults and
sometimes
On Mar 5, 10:55 am, Terry Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 08:26:04 -0800 (PST)
Edward K. Ream [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I suspect recent Python/Tkinter bugs are causing the X crash. Really,
this kind of crash should never arise with normal Python bugs.
Oddly enough I
On Mar 5, 2:38 pm, Edward K. Ream [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mar 5, 10:55 am, Terry Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Any idea how I can install Tk so Python2.5 can find it?
Doing whereis python produced a long list, so I did the following:
python signs on as 2.5.2, so we are using the
