python libexo bindings broken?

Brian J. Tarricone brian at tarricone.org
Tue Jul 21 07:27:42 CEST 2009


On 07/20/2009 10:05 PM, Adam B wrote:
>
> I'm having trouble getting the python bindings for libexo working.  Is
> this still supported?

No one is actively maintaining them, AFAIK.

> It used to be handy as standard Ubuntu package:
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/python/python-exo  but doesn't seem to
> be available in Jaunty (9.04).  I tried downloading and installing the
> .deb file manually and it complained:
> "Dependency is not satisfiable: python (<< 2.6)"

Ah, someone must have determined that the libexo bindings don't work 
with python 2.6.

> Finally I tried installing the bindings from source:
>    $ apt-get source libexo-0.3-0
>    $ cd exo-0.3.100
>    $ configure --enable-python
>    $ make
>    $ make install
>
> But still, when I try to import pyexo python complains:
> "ImportError: No module named pyexo"

I guess that's a result of them not working with 2.6.

	-brian



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