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Subject: Re: python bindings
From: Stephan Kulow <coolo () itm ! mu-luebeck ! de>
Date: 1999-05-24 18:13:06
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David Faure wrote:
>
> On Sat, May 22, 1999 at 01:15:23PM +0200, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > The pykde in kdelibs gives that many warnings
> > while compiling that I'm sure it's an old version
> > and won't work with newer KDE/Qt.
> >
> > On the home page of pyKDE there is a newer version
> > (from May 4) that also split the sources into more
> > files. So I guess, the one in kdelibs is _definitly_
> > old, but this version if for Qt 1.44 and KDE 1.1.1,
> > but we need one for HEAD and Qt 2.0.
> >
> > But when I tried what it would mean to update pyKDE,
> > I found that the sources for the bindings are about
> > 8MB and I'm afraid that is way too big to be included
> > as part of kdelibs.
> Wow !
>
> > So we need to have a plan what to do with it - make
> > it an optional package? What applications are using
> > it right now?
> Only kspread AFAIK.
>
> > The sources could also be created from the kdelibs
> > sources as far as I understood the pyKDE home page,
> Yes, that would be the way to go, of course.
>
> > but I'm not sure how well this would work with later
> > versions.
> The better thing would be that, just like IDL-generated files, it's
> generated on the developer end when necessary. Not on the server end.
>
> > And the problem with the size still remains ;(
> Sure.
>
> > But it doesn't make sense to maintain an obsolete
> > version of pykde within kdelibs.
> Sure.
>
> Who wrote / maintains pykde anyway ?
>
> Isn't there any way to have feed back from him / her ?
>
Well, if you would have kept the CC, we would know :)
Greetings, Stephan
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