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| author | B. Watson <yalhcru@gmail.com> | 2022-03-13 16:48:16 -0400 |
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| committer | B. Watson <yalhcru@gmail.com> | 2022-03-13 16:48:16 -0400 |
| commit | ce06694d5cad3d91c7546caaafab9405c71849d3 (patch) | |
| tree | efad96218d9256d83d864a900cbf63cea46cfd7a /libraries/wxPython | |
| parent | 8630971ee1f728d56ff4418e5b892b48daacd3c0 (diff) | |
libraries/wxPython: Wrap README at 72 columns.
Signed-off-by: B. Watson <yalhcru@gmail.com>
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| -rw-r--r-- | libraries/wxPython/README | 34 |
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/libraries/wxPython/README b/libraries/wxPython/README index 25804957ea77..1f20bd3ae7e8 100644 --- a/libraries/wxPython/README +++ b/libraries/wxPython/README @@ -1,15 +1,29 @@ -wxPython is a GUI toolkit for the Python programming language. It allows -Python programmers to create programs with a robust, highly functional -graphical user interface simply and easily. It is implemented as a Python -extension module (native code) that wraps the popular wxWidgets cross -platform GUI library which is written in C++. +wxPython is a GUI toolkit for the Python programming language. +It allows Python programmers to create programs with a robust, +highly functional graphical user interface simply and easily. It is +implemented as a Python extension module (native code) that wraps the +popular wxWidgets cross platform GUI library which is written in C++. -If you want support for gnomeprint pass GNOMEPRINT=yes to the script. This -will require libgnomeprint and libgnomeprintui, both available from -SlackBuilds.org. +If you want support for gnomeprint pass GNOMEPRINT=yes to the +script. This will require libgnomeprint and libgnomeprintui, both +available from SlackBuilds.org. Another optional dependency is libmspack, which is used by the CHM help viewer. -wxPython is a port of wxWidgets and as such compatible to other ports like -wxGTK and wxX11. +wxPython is a port of wxWidgets and as such compatible to other ports +like wxGTK and wxX11. Note that SlackBuilds.org builds are only tested +with wxPython (not wxGTK or wxX11), so this is the correct package to +install unless you have very specific and weird requirements. + +wxPython can be installed alongside wxGTK3, but it will overwrite the +/usr/bin/wx-config created by wxGTK3. + +If you need to build packages using wxGTK3, simply reinstall the +wxGTK3 package and wx-config will point to correct version. + +The same solution can be used if wxPython's wx-config is overwritten. + +We are in the process of updating all scripts that use wxGTK3 or +wxPython to ignore the wx-config symlink at build time, so this will +stop being a problem some time in the future. |