Re: Fast text display?

Paul Rubin <http://phr.cx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Mike Meyer <mwm@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> > I mean included with the source distro from python.org.
>> Well, it includes Tkinter, but it doesn't include tcl/tk. So you get a
>> non-functional version of Tkinter if you install from those
>> sources. Not very useful.
> OK. But I found on RH9 and FC3, as well as on Windows, that tcl/tk
> was preinstalled (or included with Python). I didn't find wxwidgets
> preinstalled on any of those systems.

I think posts are getting crossed here. The python sources you get
from www.python.org don't include tcl or tk, which is how the poster I
was replying to specified things.

>> On FreeBSD, it takes about 5 seconds of my time to install
>> wxPython from source:
>>
>> # cd /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/py-wxPython
>> # make install
>
> What about wxwidgets, which wxpython requires?

If the package needs something and it's not installed, the package
system will get it and install it. That's the *point* of a package
system.

>> Then I can go do something useful while the package system downloads,
>> compiles and installs all the required software.
>
> The installer is going to download more stuff? Yuccch, I'd rather not
> need a network connection to do an install.

The package system can be configured in a number of different ways. My
configuration - with a broadband network connection - is to check the
local disk cache, then download anything that's missing. You can
preload the disk cache by doing "make fetch-recursive" if you
want. You can preload the cache by hand if you want, but the package
system is very picky about the version numbers of things it's trying
to build, so that'd be a pain.

<mike
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