Re: python on powerpc
On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 11:45:13PM -0400, David M. Cooke wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 11:03:34AM -0400, christophe barbe wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I was wondering if you shared my impression that most python programs
> > are partially broken on powerpc. The last three programs written in
> > python that I have tried are gdeskcal, straw and eroaster.
> > The first one has significant display problems (the purpose of this program
> > is to display a calendar in the background of the desktop). The second one
> > is unable to fetch new blog entries (again the main purpose of this
> > soft). And the third one, a burner GUI doesn't display the burning
> > progress.
>
> "Most" != 3. "Most" python programs I use under powerpc, I have no
> problems with. Some fiddling with numbers from apt-cache shows ~70
> packages that depend on python2.2 that aren't python modules.
"Most" != "impression that most"
And comparing 'most' to a number is just plain stupid. As you point out,
~70 packages depend on python2.2 (including dia, gnumeric, ... that are
NOT written in python) and 3 is a significant subset of it.
> Note that the three programs you mention share also python2.2-gtk2 as a
> dependency; I'd look there for GUI problems. The corruption in gdeskcal
> is likely an endian issue (which is not an uncommon problem when
> programs are ported from x86 to ppc).
Interesting. Do you really mean that software written in an interpreted
language need to be ported? Or you just don't know what you are talking
about?
straw network related problem is not caused by python2.2-gtk2, neither
is eroaster (parsing bug). But straw i18n support is broken and this is
certainly related to python2.2-gtk2.
Christophe
>
> > I have not tested but I guess at least gdeskcal and straw work well on
> > x86.
>
> Bold statement :) [actually, they do.]
>
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