[Boa Constr] Newbie questions

[Ryurick M. H. <ryu...@ca...>]

Hello all,

I was thinking it is time to learn python so I thought an IDE would be ideal
for my first baby steps :-D. However I have some problems/questions:

a. debugger. From the home page apparently the debugger is not fully usable.
   I've tried it and it hangs doing nothing. If I do a Ctrl-C then I get
   "can't read from file descriptor 19 (error 4: Interrupted system call)".
   Is it possible to use an external debugger like DDD ?

b. what is the bcrtl package ? is it an absolute requirement ? Any pointers
   appreciated (I couldn't find anything).

c. boa always seems to exit with a segfault. I'll take it that this is a wxWindows
   problem ? (using wxPythonGTK-py2.2-2.3.3.1)

And finally: I am willing to write a spec file for the rpm package management
system (Linux: RedHat, etc.). However there is a catch: It's not clear to me
where is should go, if somebody would be willing to tell me how they install
boa system-wide "by hand" then I could translate this in the spec file.

TIA for any answers.

Cheers,
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Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:ryu...@ca...
Computer Systems Manager
University of Canterbury, Physics & Astronomy Dept., New Zealand