[rox-users] 0install ROX-Lib2 and PyGTK; WAS GtkTextSearchFlags warnings

[Matthew W. O. <mat...@we...>]

-- Thomas Leonard <ta...@ec...> wrote
(on Monday, 21 June 2004, 05:19 PM +0100):
> On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 09:36:20AM +1200, Keith Hopper wrote:
> > In article <200...@ev...>,
> >    Thomas Leonard <ta...@ec...> wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 02:01:27PM +1200, Keith Hopper wrote:
> > > > Greetings,
> > > >      In the course of updating my laptop OS version to 2.6.4 -
> > > >      with the python 2.3.3 implementation (SuSE 9.1 version) - I
> > > >      now encounter a warning with all of the python-based ROX
> > > >      applications (eg Memo, Edit, Rox-Session, SecureShell) -
> > > >      every program start-up is accompanied by the message
> > > > 
> > > > 'GtkTextSearchFlags' is not an flags type
> > > > 
> > > > [Yes that is 'an flags'!] Is this a known problem - or how might
> > > > I get rid of it, please - anyone?
> > 
> > > Bug in PyGTK. The Zero Install version should have a patch, though. Try
> > > 0refresh zero-install.sourceforge.net.
> > 
> >      I've just tried that  - Zero-progress comes up - but nothing is
> > downloaded! Sorry! The bug is still there!
> 
> What happens if you click on ROX-Lib?
> 
> 	/uri/0install/rox.sourceforge.net/lib/ROX-Lib2
> 	
> Here, it says "PyGTK location:
> /uri/0install/zero-install.sourceforge.net/libs/pygtk-2/platform/latest/lib/python2.3/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk".
> 
> If it's not running PyGTK from Zero Install (because it's incompatible
> with your version of python), then you'll have to upgrade the RPM instead.

This explains the recent problems I've had with ZeroInstall, then. I
hadn't reported them, but I was noticing that if I tried to utilize
0install applications that depended on ROX-Lib2, I was getting error
messages indicating that my pygtk was out of date (pre 1.9.something) --
which was interesting as I'd just installed on a Gentoo box, with
pygtk-2.0.0.

So, my question -- would there be a way for the 0install version of
ROX-Lib2 to be a little more forgiving of python version and/or pygtk
version? or to have some way for it to determine if other, compatible
versions might be present -- some sort of mapping or set of tests? Right
now, 0install for ROX-Lib2-based programs is pretty much unusable on my
gentoo systems because of this very issue.

-- 
Matthew Weier O'Phinney
http://weierophinney.net/matthew/