[Clam-devel] Re: [pksampler-devel] CLAM and PK widgets

[Patrick Stinson]

On 4/12/07, oc2pus at arcor.de <oc2pus at arcor.de> wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 12. April 2007 schrieb Patrick Stinson:
> > OK, well it may be simpler to just mess with your pyqt4 install, and
> > leave the packages alone. Have you tried to install the latest version
> > of sip and pyqt4 into /usr/local/lib and /usr/local/bin, or a local
> > overlay in your home directory, like ~/share/lib and ~/share/bin? Then
> > you add the lib dir to your PYTHONPATH and the bin dir to your PATH in
> > your login script.
> yes, thats my local setup :)
> and as I said, this works also for building, as this is done in a chroot,
> where only the necessary packages are installed.
>
> > This would be fine if you are just trying to develop with pyqt4.
> > PYTHONPATH is stored as a list of strings in sys.path, which you can
> > tweak at startup if you want.
> >
> > If you are trying to deploy something you will want to ship bundled
> > binary packages anyway, so this stuff doesn't really come into play.
> > let me know.
> but the above solution won't work in a package based system, as the packages
> are installed in global directories and you don't know how to tweak a setup
> for which users, as the packages are installed as root in /usr/lib /usr/bin
> etc ..
>
> so it seems that we have to wait for pksampler in SuSE till the next
> SuSE-version shipped with sip and pyqt4 :(

well, that *is* the simplest option! I would say that the pksampler is
more valuable as source
code, anyway. Do you use the pksampler app?

> >
> Toni
>
> > On 4/12/07, oc2pus at arcor.de <oc2pus at arcor.de> wrote:
> > > Am Donnerstag, 12. April 2007 schrieb Patrick Stinson:
> > > > How does it break the distribution? It is not possible to install the
> > > > packages in parallel, true, but manually installing the current
> > > > version should get the code to work. What exactly happens when you do
> > > > that? Also, what is the current pyqt4 version in the suse distro?
> > >
> > > SuSE-10.2 actual has NO pyqt4-package  ...
> > >
> > > I can compile and package pyqt4 and the needed sip to build pksampler.
> > > I've prepared all those packages and they are ready to roll out.
> > > As the packages are builded in a chroot this is possible at
> > > compile/build-time but at installation time ... the sip is the main
> > > problem it cann't be installed in paralell, all package- managers wants
> > > them to remove the half of qt3 packages and the kde* packages, because
> > > they are dependend on qt3.
> > >
> > > QT3 and QT4 can be installed parallel, they use /usr/lib/qt3 and
> > > /usr/lib/qt4. If you have any ideas how to manage this, that would be
> > > great, because pksampler would be available for SuSE :)
> > >
> > > have fun
> > > Toni
> > >
> > > > On 4/12/07, oc2pus at arcor.de <oc2pus at arcor.de> wrote:
> > > > > Am Donnerstag, 12. April 2007 schrieb David García Garzón:
> > > > > > On Thursday 12 April 2007 04:14:49 Patrick Stinson wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > ...
> > > > >
> > > > > > > I built our system around the specific requirements for our
> > > > > > > product plugin system, so it probably won't make much sense for
> > > > > > > you.\
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > I program against the latest PyQt4 and for any platform. I always
> > > > > > > build from source. I suggest you do too.
> > > > >
> > > > > VETO :)
> > > > > this is a shoot-out for SuSE-packages. The newest PyQT4 is not
> > > > > available. I tried several times to package also pksampler, but it is
> > > > > not possible to install pyQT4 beside the existing pyQT. This
> > > > > "destroys" the whole distribution ...
> > > > >
> > > > > > I do, but we offer a development platform and distribute packages
> > > > > > for a lot of platforms so in some way we will like to distribute
> > > > > > the widget toolchain too in a similar way or providing some howto.
> > > > >
> > > > > <snip>
> > > > >
> > > > > > Regards
> > > > >
> > > > > Toni
>
>
>


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