Re: [Pytables-users] What about PyTables version in Ubuntu Breezy?

[Cournapeau D. <cou...@at...>]

> Oh, really? This was completely unexpected for me. Perhaps this is due
> to that I'm the maintainer for Debian, and because Ubuntu is so close
> to Debian the package my name remains as the original maintainer.
> 
> Anyway, PyTables 1.1.1 depends on HDF5 1.6.4 and I'm not sure whether
> this is in Ubuntu or not, but I strongly suspect that it is not (it
> should be 1.6.2 instead). HDF5 1.6.4 is even having problems to enter
> testing distribution in Debian (they are waiting for a recent lam
> package there).
> 
The HDF5 version in ubuntu breezy is 1.6.4, no problem here. 

Building an ubuntu package using the standart debian tools
(dpkg-builpackage) worked for me, but I had to do some dirty stuff, I
cannot remember what exactly (some numarray version problem).

I cannot check it, but it looks like right know, using the pytables
sources, and doing a fakeroot dpkg-buildpackage in pytable root
directory works at least up to pytable-1.2b6 (I have not tested
thoroughly the package, but it builds on my powerpc machine and two PC).

I can send my deb packages to anyone interested (modulo the usual 'don't
complain if this destroys your house' stuff:) ).

However, As I noticed this morning, this does not work anymore with the
last beta (which I use to investigate support of "raw" .h5 files with
pytables). The documentation is using tbook now, which has no debian
package, and looks like a nightmare because of its java dependancy, and
non standart (and buggy) Makefile (I don't even want to talk about the
fact that it is using some tex tools which do not exist in debian
tetex...). I wasted 2 hours this morning trying to solve the issue, and
I gave up. 

I simply removes the doc directory from the build dir for now.

Francesc, it looks like you are using debian. How do you manage to build
a deb package of tbook, or just even make it work ?

David