From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 9 18:36:54 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id SAA24676 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 9 Nov 1995 18:36:54 -0800 Received: from virginia.edu (uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU [128.143.2.7]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id SAA24655 for ; Thu, 9 Nov 1995 18:36:37 -0800 Received: from server.cs.virginia.edu by uvaarpa.virginia.edu id aa13544; 9 Nov 95 21:35 EST Received: from agate.cs.Virginia.EDU by uvacs.cs.virginia.edu (4.1/5.1.UVA) id AA24503; Thu, 9 Nov 95 21:35:35 EST Posted-Date: Thu, 9 Nov 1995 21:35:34 -0500 (EST) Received: by agate.cs.Virginia.EDU (4.1/SMI-2.0) id AA28182; Thu, 9 Nov 95 21:35:35 EST Date: Thu, 9 Nov 1995 21:35:34 -0500 (EST) From: "Adrian T. Filipi-Martin" Reply-To: adrian@virginia.edu To: Michael Smith Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Looking for Python programmer for some advice... In-Reply-To: <199511091500.PAA10073@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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/