Re: [orca-list] Does pyatspi require at-spi2?

[Luke Yelavich <themuso ubuntu com>]

On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 08:52:56AM EST, Michael Whapples wrote:
> Hello,
> I know the subject seems like an odd question, however it has
> actually come up.
>
> I filed a bug against the archlinux package for pyatspi as it does
> not depend on at-spi2-core suggesting such a dependency should
> exist. A comment has been added to that bug report which reads like
> this: Hello, pyatspi is not a bindings module for some C library.
> AFAIK, it is a pure Python module that allows to write clients for
> the AT-SPI protocol. It has no reason to depend on anything special,
> just like graphical applications should not depend on xorg-server
> and webbrowsers do not depend on Apache.

The pyatspi2 module needs at-spi2, pyatspi itself is part of at-spi. I think the confusion comes from there 
being more than one pyatspi implementation, and then the new pyatspi2 module on top of that.

Luke