Re: PyGTK and Python 2.6
On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:56:22 +0000 David D Lowe
<daviddlowe.flimm@googlemail.com> wrote:
>Hello all.
>
>I'm the author of Epidermis, a theme manager for GNOME. More details
>at: http://epidermis.tuxfamily.org
>
>Until now, I've only ever tested and released Epidermis for Ubuntu,
>however, I'm interested making Epidermis support as many Linux
>distributions as possible, and I thought Debian would be a good start.
>
>Epidermis is programmed in Python 2.6. I was surprised to find that
>Python 2.6 is not included in Debian unstable, but only in the
>experimental repositories. Unfortunately, Epidermis still doesn't work
>on Debian. It seems python-gtk2 and other essential packages for
>Epidermis have not been upgraded to Python 2.6 in any of Debian's
>repositories.
>
>Am I missing something? Can I get "import gtk" to work under Python
>2.6 on Debian? Should I try to port Epidermis back to Python 2.5 or
>should I wait for Python 2.6 to be fully supported in Debian
>experimental or unstable?
You would have to rebuild pygtk locally using the experimental packages. I expect we'll see
Python 2.6 in unstable some time next week.
>I'm not looking for a definitive answer, (unless there is one!), just
>advice. Thank you.
>
My advice would be wait.
Scott K
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