Re: [Visualpython-users] Anyone updating Linux vpython to GTK 2?

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

Two points:

1) Jonathan Brandmeyer is hard at work on making available for testing 
by others his new version that supports transparency, surface textures, 
and sophisticated lighting, and this is based on GTK2.

2) However, it will take some time for this to settle down, so if you 
are able without too much work to offer patches to change the current 
code to be based on GTK2, that would be useful, since as you have found, 
it is difficult to compile the current code on some Linux platforms.

There is another modernization that needs to be carried out, which is to 
move from Numeric (or Numarray) to the new NumPy, which is intended to 
supercede both.

Bruce Sherwood

Hugh Fisher wrote:

>
> I tried building Visual Python from source for our Fedora Core
> 3 Linux PCs. The configure script fell over because it wanted
> GTK 1.2 and didn't recognise GTK 2 as being present.
>
> GTK 2 has been out for a number of years now, so I think it's
> time to bring Visual Python up to date. Is this already being
> planned for some near future release, or would people be
> interested in patches to convert Visual Python to GTK 2 ?
>