Re: New Python bindings (was: Crash with Python bindings)

2018-04-04 Thread Brian May
David Bremner writes: > That's not an itch I personally have, but as I said in the next > paragraph, if someone want's to take on the project of maintaining a > wheel, we'll render the same kind of assistance we give *BSD/Linux/MacOS > package maintainers. We're happy to look

Re: New Python bindings (was: Crash with Python bindings)

2018-03-28 Thread David Bremner
Brian May writes: > David Bremner writes: > >> We tried this before, and it didn't work out very well. Bindings tend to >> depend on a strict matching of versions with the underlying library, so >> distributing them seperately doesn't really make

Re: New Python bindings (was: Crash with Python bindings)

2018-03-28 Thread Brian May
David Bremner writes: > We tried this before, and it didn't work out very well. Bindings tend to > depend on a strict matching of versions with the underlying library, so > distributing them seperately doesn't really make sense to me. You need > the underlying libraries, so

Re: New Python bindings (was: Crash with Python bindings)

2018-03-28 Thread Floris Bruynooghe
On Wed, Mar 28 2018, David Bremner wrote: > Brian May writes: > >> I can into this thread late. However, my priorities for python bindings >> would be: > > [...] >> * Packages should be available from pypi.python.org >> > > We tried this before, and it didn't work out

Re: New Python bindings (was: Crash with Python bindings)

2018-03-28 Thread Floris Bruynooghe
On Wed, Mar 28 2018, Brian May wrote: > Justus Winter writes: > >>> This is exactly what I have fixed in my alternative bindings which I >>> created around the end of last year [0]. So we do have an idea of how >>> to fix this, at the time I said I do believe that it's

Re: New Python bindings (was: Crash with Python bindings)

2018-03-28 Thread David Bremner
Brian May writes: > I can into this thread late. However, my priorities for python bindings > would be: [...] > * Packages should be available from pypi.python.org > We tried this before, and it didn't work out very well. Bindings tend to depend on a strict matching of

Re: New Python bindings (was: Crash with Python bindings)

2018-03-28 Thread Brian May
Justus Winter writes: >> This is exactly what I have fixed in my alternative bindings which I >> created around the end of last year [0]. So we do have an idea of how >> to fix this, at the time I said I do believe that it's possible to also >> do this for the existing

Re: New Python bindings (was: Crash with Python bindings)

2018-03-26 Thread Floris Bruynooghe
On Wed, Mar 21 2018, Justus Winter wrote: > > Floris Bruynooghe writes: > >> This is exactly what I have fixed in my alternative bindings which I >> created around the end of last year [0]. So we do have an idea of how >> to fix this, at the time I said I do believe that it's

New Python bindings (was: Crash with Python bindings)

2018-03-21 Thread Justus Winter
Hi Floris :) Floris Bruynooghe writes: > This is exactly what I have fixed in my alternative bindings which I > created around the end of last year [0]. So we do have an idea of how > to fix this, at the time I said I do believe that it's possible to also > do this for the