[aheitner@andrew.cmu.edu: Re: [Visualpython-users] What is IDLE?]

[Ari H. <ahe...@an...>]

d'oh, meant for this to go to the list.

----- Forwarded message from Ari Heitner <ahe...@an...> -----

> From: Ari Heitner <ahe...@an...>
> Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 14:41:23 -0400
> Subject: Re: [Visualpython-users] What is IDLE?
> To: Anton Sherwood <br...@po...>
>=20
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 08:38:25PM -0700, Anton Sherwood wrote:
> > Ari Heitner wrote:
> > > Compiling the Linux version is easy. You just need to
> > > get RPMs (from rpmfind.net) for the libraries it needs --
> >=20
> > Tried that.  Got nowhere.
> >=20
> > (Don't ask me for details because since then I managed to install a
> > broken version of rpm, and have failed so far to install a working
> > version.)
> >=20
>=20
> Yeah.
>=20
> See, that's a problem.
>=20
> I can fix problems when I know exactly what the error was. But "I gave =
up,
> It broke, I have no exact error messages" does nothing for me.
>=20
> I do *not* recommend trying to compile VPython if you have no experienc=
e
> compiling stuff before. However, if you *have* worked with C/C++/whatev=
er
> before, I think it's fairly straightforward -- the compiler yells at yo=
u
> about missing header files, and you either go find the appropriate libr=
ary
> on rpmfind.net, or (hopefully as a last resort) post to this list and s=
ay
> "ack, it broke with error X" and I respond and say "Oh no problem juts =
do
> Y".
>=20
>=20
>=20
> ...
>=20
> This doesn't address the real problem: given that RH 6.2, all evil libr=
ary
> versioning problems aside, appears to have a broken C++ compiler and a
> broken kernel, and that RH 7 still has library versioning issues, I sug=
gest
> using the debian packages for debian. What we really need is someone wh=
o
> actually *uses* RH and knows how to build RH packages (can't be that ha=
rd)
> to volunteer to maintain those packages. The alien'd DEBs appear to be =
more
> trouble then they are worth.
>=20
>=20
>=20
> Ari

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