From kde-devel Mon May 24 18:07:24 1999 From: David Faure Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 18:07:24 +0000 To: kde-devel Subject: Re: python bindings X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=92756869330971 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 ? -- David FAURE david.faure@insa-lyon.fr, faure@kde.org http://www.insa-lyon.fr/People/AEDI/dfaure/index.html KDE, Making The Future of Computing Available Today