Bug 167621 - Review Request: PyCairo - Python bindings for Cairo
Summary: Review Request: PyCairo - Python bindings for Cairo
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: Package Review
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Greg DeKoenigsberg
QA Contact: David Lawrence
URL: http://www.spacecentre.se/jacob/pycairo/
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-09-06 12:34 UTC by Jacob Kroon
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version: pycairo-1.0.2-1.1
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Environment:
Last Closed: 2006-01-15 14:37:33 UTC
Type: ---
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Description Jacob Kroon 2005-09-06 12:34:18 UTC
Spec Name or Url: http://www.spacecentre.se/jacob/pycairo/pycairo.spec
SRPM Name or Url: http://www.spacecentre.se/jacob/pycairo/pycairo-1.0.0-1.src.rpm
Description: Python bindings for Cairo.

Since this is my first package I am seeking a sponsor.

Comment 1 Jacob Kroon 2005-09-11 09:24:08 UTC
PyCairo has 3 optional libraries it checks for when configuring:

 * cairo.gtk
 * cairo.svg
 * Numeric Support

cairo.gtk
=========
This module is was introduced because PyGTK (for a while) lacked a
method for creating a Cairo-context from a GtkDrawable. PyGTK 2.8.0
handles this now, so this module is deprecated now I believe.

cairo.svg
=========
Running configure gives me:

checking for libsvg-cairo >= 0.1.6...

I haven't figured out where this library lives, but I don't see
it in any of the Fedora repos (it is not librsvg2). I haven't
found a flag for configure to disable it.

Numeric Support
===============
This is handled by BuildRequire:ing python-numeric.

Currently I'm just using "./configure" without flags.
I don't "--without-pygtk", cause I am not sure if its
necessary. Numeric support is also handled, and that
leaves libsvg-support. Anyone got any ideas?

Comment 2 Michel Alexandre Salim 2005-09-12 21:19:20 UTC
Note: I can't actually sponsor anyone, being rather new myself.

- Shouldn't the package name be pycairo, in keeping with upstream?
- pygtk is pretty much always installed on a Fedora system - the configuration
  tools are mostly written in Python. Just BuildRequire: on pygtk2-devel

Hope that helps! Will look at the package later today - not in front of a Linux
box right now.

- Michel

Comment 3 Jacob Kroon 2005-09-12 22:26:56 UTC
The package is really called "pycairo", not "PyCairo", I just wrote PyCairo
for the inital package submission message to FE.

I'm not sure pygtk2 always gets installed, for instance if you do a "minimal"
install, haven't verified this though.

- Jacob

Comment 4 Paul Howarth 2005-09-13 06:43:52 UTC
Try this:

$ rpm -q --whatrequires pygtk2

on any system you have to hand. Most of the system-config-* tools use it, as do
hwbrowser and switchdesk-gui. I'd have no qualms about including pygtk2 support
at all.

Comment 5 Jacob Kroon 2005-09-18 18:39:12 UTC
I just did reinstall of FC4 minimal install, no gtk2/pygtk2 gets installed
, also for instance system-config-display requires pygtk2 and gtk
(rpm -q --requires system-config-display), so keeping it in pycairo
seems like a good idea to me at least.

Comment 6 Michael A. Peters 2005-12-20 12:20:53 UTC
(In reply to comment #3)

> 
> I'm not sure pygtk2 always gets installed, for instance if you do a "minimal"
> install, haven't verified this though.

I would suspect it does not always get installed - gtk2 is an X11 library,
installs without X11 won't have it.

Comment 7 Jacob Kroon 2005-12-20 12:30:54 UTC
jrb (Jonathan Blandford I think) has already imported pycairo into core, so this
bug is redundant now, so I'll close it soon.



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