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Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/13] gnu: Add python2-pygtk.
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On 11/26/2014 09:30 AM, Federico Beffa wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 4:46 AM, Eric Bavier <ericbavier@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 10:18 AM, Eric Bavier <ericbavier@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 9:40 AM, Federico Beffa <beffa@ieee.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Eric Bavier <ericbavier@gmail.com> skribis:
>>>>>
>>>>>> * gnu/packages/gtk.scm (python2-pygtk): New variable.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I notice that most python packages are defined for python 3 and then a
>>>> python2 package is generated with the procedure 'package-with-python2'.
>>>> Is pygtk problematic with python 3?
>>>
>>>
>>> It has been a while since I did the packaging work for this python2-pygtk,
>>> and I seem to recall that there was some sort of difficulty with python3.
>>
>>
>> It looks possible, but from what I can tell, it might require more work on
>> the packages that pygtk depends on, some of which aren't compatible with
>> python3 or would requires updates to work with python3.
>>
> 
> I noticed that pygtk depends on pycairo and the home page of the
> latter provides two sources: one for python3 and one for python2.
> Maybe that's the package causing some troubles.
> 
> http://cairographics.org/pycairo/
> 

Are the Python bindings currently built by the "cairo" package? If so,
which version is used? Andreas, do you know this?


Cyril.