[PyKDE] RE: Greetings, and a short question

[Jim Bublitz]

On 30-Jun-01 pykde-admin at mats.gmd.de wrote:

> Hello List,
 
> I was wondering what the status is on the PyKDE port to KDE2, is
> a development version in cvs?
 
> Brendon

PyKDE2 (for KDE2) is in progress - modules for the dcop, kdecore,
and kdeui libraries are about 99% complete, kio and kfile modules
are about 75% complete, modules for khtml and kparts may not make
the initial release, but will follow shortly after.

The major problem at the moment is that PyKDE2 requires several
unattractive hacks to build which will not be present in the
released version. In order to remove/fix these hacks, SIP needs
some difficult revisions and PyQt also requires some revision.
Since both of these are already released and in use, the changes to
them need to be made carefully.

The initial release will be 'alpha' quality - meaning some bugs
will need to be fixed, although I don't expect them to be major
problems (I have Python code running and it works well). I'm not
opposed to "release early/often", I just want to see this build
cleanly before it's released (for example, in the present state it
requires a special modified set of .sip files for PyQt in order to
compile, which is NOT a Good Thing). Similarly, I don't think CVS
availability is a good idea right now. CVS will be available
(probably at theKompany as before) along with the initial release.

We are working as fast as we can on this - please keep in mind
we're working in C++, not Python, so everything takes *a lot*
longer :)

Jim