[Fwd: Re: [seul-edu] New educational app--desktop publishing]

[Doug Loss <dloss@suscom.net>]

owner-seul-edu@seul.org wrote:

> From: Tom Hoffman <hoffman@as220.org>
> To: seul-edu@seul.org
> Subject: Re: [seul-edu] New educational app--desktop publishing
>
>
> On Tuesday 27 March 2001 21:43, you wrote:
>
> >
> >     This was on Freshmeat last night:
> >
> >     http://web2.altmuehlnet.de/fschmid/
> >
> >     Scribus is a DTP program written completely in Python, using the
> >     PyQt-Bindings for its GUI.
> >
> Sorry to report my efforts to test Scribus have met with failure.  You need
> Python 2.0 and PyQt 2.3.  There are only a few rpm's for these, which have a
> rats-nest of KDE-ish dependencies (odd libmng & sip, etc) and other typical
> rpm snafus.  I finally just compiled PyQt, but I still got errors when I
> tried to run Scribus.
>
> Maybe this will become easier when Python 2.0 and PyQt 2.3 become part of
> standard distributions.  At this point, you'd probably have to compile all
> the libraries from source, which would just further screw up my rpm database.
>
> I was excited about this since it seems like it would be easier for us
> English teachers to contribute to the development of a Python app than a C
> program.
> --
> Tom Hoffman
> hoffman@as220.org
> http://www.as220.org/~hoffman
> ~oOo~
> It takes application, a fine sense of value, and a powerful community-spirit
> for a people to have serious leisure, and this has not been the genius of the
> Americans.
> --Paul Goodman, Growing Up Absurd

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