[wxPython-users] Re: Follow up ? Re: [wxPython-users] pyGTK Vs. wxPython

[Uwe Grauer]

johnf wrote:
> On Thursday 29 March 2007 03:24, Uwe Grauer wrote:
>> johnf wrote:
>>> On Wednesday 28 March 2007 01:47, Christian wrote:
>>>> johnf wrote:
>>>>> On Tuesday 27 March 2007 21:31, Paul McNett wrote:
>>>>>> GTK port of wxPython.
>>>>> I'm some what confused I thought GTK (gnome?) , QT, and wxWidgets were
>>>>> graphic Lib's.  And wxPython was a wrapper for wxWidgets.  Now you say
>>>>> that python-GTK is a GTK port of wxPython.  Why would GTK want to port
>>>>> wxWidgets?
>>>> no. python-wxGTK
>>>>
>>>>> I guess I don't know what GTK is about or there is different def's for
>>>>> GTK.
>>>> wxWidgets/wxPython is using the 'native' gui lib on each platform. As
>>>> there is no such 'nativ' toolkit on X (linux), several ports exist among
>>>> them the GTK port is the most common. Maybe in future there will be more
>>>> ports, e.g. I heard some people say that they would like to see a QT
>>>> port. This would then probably be called python-wxQT.
>>>>
>>>> Christian
>>> OK that makes sense.  This question actually came up while trying to find
>>> wxPython 2.8 for my SUSE 10.2 (without success) I kept finding info for
>>> wxPython 2.6 associated with python-wxGTK.
>> You still are not able to compile?
>> Didn't the wiki page which i made help you?
>>
>> Uwe
> Uwe I never got it to work.  I tried for several days.  At this point I don't 
> recall the issues (I believe I reported them to you).  I do recall 
> the "configure" worked and so did the second step.  Anyway, the question was 
> about the python-wxGTK stuff which was explained.  I'll just have to wait 
> until SUSE or someone provides the install.

This means, you don't have the right dev-packages installed.
If it would help, i could provide a tarball for you.
If you want the tarball, just drop me a mail in private or on dabo-dev.

Uwe