On 8/12/07 9:36 AM, "Glynn Clements" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> Even if we provide .rpm/.deb/etc files for every OS in existence, many >>> people may be unwilling to use a third-party package which might >>> conceivably conflict with the "vendor" version. >> >> Sorry, but I don't understand your point here. How is providing a binary >> that is not available from the wxPython site in conflict with the 'vendor' >> version? This is just a convenience to make it easier for someone to install >> the software. They can always compile from source if they want a custom >> version. > > If the user already has e.g. wxPython 2.6 installed as part of the OS > distribution, they may be reluctant to install any other version of > wxPython. Thanks. I understand what you are getting at. I guess I'm accustomed to getting such software from the original distributor. E.g., Apple provides Python 2.3 with it's Mac distribution, but I've installed 2.5 directly from python.org. > > Not only do we need to ensure that a wxPython 2.8 package doesn't > interfere with their existing installation in any way, but we also > need to convince the user of that fact. I forget that many Linux users are accustomed to getting software from their distro repository. > > We also need to ensure that the wxPython 2.8 package *does* get used > by GRASS even though it doesn't get used by anything else which uses > wxPython. > > Here, I set LD_LIBRARY_PATH and PYTHONPATH manually before running > wxgrass. I'm not sure how easy it would be for GRASS to automate that, > given that wxPython 2.8 is likely to be installed in such a way that > it would normally be "invisible" to packages which use wxPython. Good points. I remember some directions at the wxPython download site for installing wxPython in non-standard locales and installing multiple versions. Maybe we could use those suggestions to deal with this. Michael __________________________________________ Michael Barton, Professor of Anthropology Director of Graduate Studies School of Human Evolution & Social Change Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity Arizona State University phone: 480-965-6213 fax: 480-965-7671 www: http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list [email protected] http://grass.itc.it/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
