Re: [Visualpython-users] Visual on Ubuntu *Karmic*? Has *anyone* managed?

[Bruce S. <Bru...@nc...>]

In a bug report at

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python-visual/+bug/408663

Guy reported various aspects of the problem with the new Ubuntu Karmic 
and gave a pointer to http://ur1.ca/du0m which documents the same 
problem with PySide that we're experiencing with Visual, and which was 
just reported on Windows using Python 2.6.3 instead of 2.6.2.

I've just reproduced this same problem after compiling from source on 
Windows using Boost 1.39 and Python 2.6.3, as soon as you execute from 
visual import *:

Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<pyshell#0>", line 1
     from visual import *
   File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\visual\__init__.py", line 59
     import cvisual
AttributeError: 'Boost.Python.StaticProperty' object attribute '__doc__' 
is read-only

It would appear that something is seriously wrong with the Boost Python 
libraries and/or Python 2.6.3 or both. It seems unlikely that both 
PySide and Visual are doing something wrong, especially since things 
worked in the past.

As far as Visual is concerned, until and unless someone figures out the 
underlying problem I guess we have to stay with Python 2.6.2...? Guy, 
when you've tried building on Karmic, is that Python 2.6.3?

Bruce Sherwood

Guy K. Kloss wrote:
> The subject pretty much says it all ...
> 
> Has anybody managed to get Visual to work on Ubuntu Karmic?
> 
> For me neither the pre-compiled repository binaries in versino 5.11 worked, 
> neither the back ported ones from Debian Sid (5.12), nor a direct compile.
> 
> I'm always hitting a road block, and I'm supposing the reason could be the 
> boost 1.38 libraries as present in Karmic.
> 
> Any stories to share where it worked?
> 
> Guy
>