Request for review/sponsor: boa-constructor

[Paul Howarth]

On Sat, 2005-07-30 at 09:53 -0400, Kevin Cole wrote:
> Alex Lancaster wrote:
> >>>>>>"KC" == Kevin Cole  writes:
> > 
> > KC> Hi all, Summary: Boa Constructor is a cross platform Python IDE
> > KC> and wxPython GUI Builder
> > 
> > KC> http://pchb1f.gallaudet.edu/~kjcole/Fedora/Extras/boa-constructor.spec
> > 
> > Not a full review, but I just noticed this:
> > 
> > Requires: wxPython %{_bindir}/python%{pyver}
> > 
> > The name of the wxPython package in Extras is wxPythonGTK2, so this
> > should be:
> > 
> > Requires: wxPythonGTK2 %{_bindir}/python%{pyver}
> 
> Thanks... but... ;-)  I guess I've mixed and matched from non-Fedora
> sources more than I remembered. Should I then repackage the wxPython
> that I got from the Python web site, since it goes by a rather ungainly
> name and appears to be ahead of what's in Extras?  Specifically should
> I try to make the names of the following more closely match Fedora's?
> What I've installed are:
> 
>   wxPython2.6-devel-gtk2-unicode-2.6.1.0-1_py2.4.i386.rpm
>   wxPython2.6-gtk2-unicode-2.6.1.0-1_py2.4.i386.rpm
>   wxPython-common-gtk2-unicode-2.6.1.0-1_py2.4.i386.rpm
> 
> which I built from:
> 
>     wxPython2.6-2.6.1.0-1_py2.4.src.rpm
> 
> And a naive question: Why didn't rpm complain when I installed my
> boa-constructor, since none of my packages is named wxPython?
> ("rpm -q wxPython" reports that no such beastie is installed.)

Try:

$ rpm -q --whatprovides wxPython

It is probably "provide"d by wxPythonGTK2. And the "Requires" is correct
to be "wxPython" rather than "wxPythonGTK2", as a non-GTK2
implementation of wxPython should also be OK.

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>