Date: Thu, 9 Nov 1995 21:35:34 -0500 (EST) From: "Adrian T. Filipi-Martin" <atf3r@agate.cs.virginia.edu> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Looking for Python programmer for some advice... Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.90.951109212524.27913A-100000@agate.cs.Virginia.EDU> In-Reply-To: <199511091500.PAA10073@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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On Thu, 9 Nov 1995, Michael Smith wrote: > I'm tinkering with some python code of a foreign origin, with a view > to seeing if it can be coaxed to run under FreeBSD. > > Being a total newcomer to Python, I was wondering if I could ask a few > mildly losing questions of someone who has it up and doing useful things > under FreeBSD. > > (I notice that many of the Python Tk demos segfault. This is Not Good. > Ooh, Jordan is the maintainer. Maybe I won't pester about this until > later 8) I believe the package in 2.1 is for python 1.2. You should consider installing 1.3, which came out a month or so ago. It should compile pretty easily. I sent off patches a long time ago to make this happen. Unfortunately, you need to add libcrypt to the link command manually or such. I forgot about this when I sent my diff. :-( The demos all work with the exception of a few which haven't been updated in ages and use obsolete language features. BTW, you should install Tk4.0. I used the port and symlinked the libtk40.a to libtk.a, etc. Do you have any specific python questions? They are pretty big on python here at UVa, and I have done thousands of lines of Tk/Python programming, so I know more than most about this language. cheers, Adrian adrian@virginia.edu ---->>>>| Support your local programmer, http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~atf3r/ --->>>| STOP Software Patent Abuses NOW! Member: The League for -->>| For an application and information Programming Freedom ->| see: http://www.lpf.org/
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