Re: get_transform crashes with pygoocanvas0.14

[Brandon Lewis <brandon_lewis berkeley edu>]

Bruno Coudoin wrote:
> Le samedi 27 juin 2009 à 13:08 -0700, Brandon Lewis a écrit :
> > Bruno Coudoin wrote:
> > > Le vendredi 26 juin 2009 à 08:20 +0200, bruno a écrit :
> > > > Le jeudi 25 juin 2009 à 22:46 -0700, Brandon Lewis a écrit :
> > > > > I also run ubuntu 9.04 and goocanvas seems to work fine for me, though I am on 
> > > > > 64-bit. I tested it with the following script:
> > > > Thanks for the test. Your script crashes on my side, I have probably
> > > > screwed something on my system.
> > > I found what's going on. By default Ubuntu ships with python-cairo
> > > 1.4.12 (on 9.04 and currently on 9.10 as well).
> > >
> > > But pygoocanvas requires a pycairo >= 1.8.0
> > >
> > > I installed pycairo 1.8.4 but it is installed by default
> > > in /usr/local/lib. When I run a pygoocanvas application, obviously the
> > > installed version in /usr/lib is used. I made a link 
> > > /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/cairo
> > > -> /usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cairo/
> > >
> > > and it works.
> > >
> > > Next stage, that's a real mess, what is the process to distribute a
> > > pygoocanvas application. Why does goocanvas 0.14 requires cairo 1.4
> > > while pygoocanvas requires pycairo 1.8 ?
> > I am not sure this is true, as I am running the stock pycairo 1.4.12 and 
> > everything seems to work fine.
>
> Hum, with goocanvas 0.14 and pygoocanvas 0.14 ?
>
> >  I simply install python-pygoocanvas through apt 
> > and everything seems to work without taking extra steps, or installing libraries 
> > from source. If you find yourself having to do this sort of thing on a system 
> > like ubuntu, stop, take a deep breath, retrace your steps and figure out where 
> > you went wrong.
>
> Ok, then you are using goocanvas 0.13 and strangely pygoocanvas 0.12 as
> packaged on Ubuntu 9.04. This is a safe choice but in the GCompris case,
> I do include goocanvas in our source code for several reasons. My goal
> here was to use goocanvas 0.14 on Ubuntu and not the Ubuntu package of
> it.
>
> Bruno.

Oh, now it all makese sense =)