[PyKDE] Bindings and the KDE project

[Jim Bublitz]

On Thursday March 25 2004 02:57, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:
> [Sorry for being that late]
>
> On Sunday 21 March 2004 00:48, Jim Bublitz wrote:
> > I saw Phil indicate in another msg that the current PyKDE
> > won't build against KDE 3.2.1. I haven't gotten far enough
> > to look at that yet, so I don't have an explanation. If
> > 3.2.1 is backward compatible with 3.2.0, there isn't any
> > reason why that should happen. Note that the way I do PyKDE,
> > I never see this happen, because I always adjust versioning
> > for each new release (automatically too) and never look at
> > the backward compatibility issue.
>
> Well, to build PyKDE 3.11[PyQt-3.11,sip-3.10.1] with KDE
> 3.2.1, all it take is:
>
> for i in $(find sip -name \*-kde320.diff); do
>     o=$(echo $i | sed "s|kde320|kde321|g")
>     i=$(basename $i)
>     ln -s $i $o
> done
> ln -s kde320 extra/kde321
>
> and a little (dirty) quickfix (attached). I found a small
> glitch in configure.py, concerning the -d option (attached).
> Please apply this one, Jim.

Thanks - those will get applied or otherwise repaired.

> > The other changes I'd like to consider is dropping kjs (and
> > maybe one or two other of the current modules) and adding
> > kab. kjs always turns out to be a lot of work for some
> > reason, and I don't think anyone uses it. Also, the panel
> > applet/plugin type stuff needs work too.

> kab would be be 1000 times more useful for an average PyKDE
> hacker, then kjs, which seems only useful for a full featured
> PyKDE based web browser. BTW, does anybody know, if khtml pick
> up js automatically, or is some kjs activation stub needed?

Don't know, but thanks for the input.

Jim