Re: Prerelease of 0.94 is out

[Lars Clausen <lars raeder dk>]

On Sat, 2004-07-10 at 12:54, Andrew Ross wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-07-10 at 16:24, Lars Clausen wrote:
> > On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 23:49, Alan Horkan wrote:
> > > hoping i can get a quick answer ...
> > > 
> > > would you expect 0.94 to work with a fairly stock setup of Fedora Core 2?
> > > 
> > > either way I'll be trying it later but as I have to burn the files to CD
> > > it would be help if people could warning about extra dependancies I'll
> > > probably need.
> > 
> > I should think so.  We haven't gone to Gtk 2.4 yet, and the other
> > dependencies are pretty much standard.  There may be some bits you don't
> > get, like the Cairo and WMF plugins, but it should work.  
> 
> Should python and python-xml/pyxml be listed as build time dependencies?
> I couldn't find any mention of them in INSTALL, but they are required by
> sheets/checktrans.py (which is used to produce the sheet translation
> report).
> 
> Selected output of make:
> 
> "Merging translations into ChemEng.sheet.
> (cd . && ./checktrans UML.sheet ER.sheet sybase.sheet FS.sheet
> network.sheet Flowchart.sheet Circuit.sheet Contact.sheet GRAFCET.sheet
> chronogram.sheet SADT.sheet Pneumatic.sheet Electric.sheet civil.sheet
> jigsaw.sheet MSE.sheet SDL.sheet Logic.sheet EML.sheet Misc.sheet
> Assorted.sheet ciscocomputer.sheet ciscohub.sheet ciscomisc.sheet
> cisconetwork.sheet ciscorouter.sheet Cybernetics.sheet
> IsometricMap.sheet Istar.sheet Jackson.sheet KAOS.sheet ChemEng.sheet)
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "./checktrans.py", line 24, in ?
>     from xml.sax import saxexts
> ImportError: cannot import name saxexts
> *** Sheet translation report: ***
> (Absence of a language code means 0% translation for that language)
> (Help for translations (and/or much more) is of course welcome !)
> E: checktrans failed to run. Please check that python and python-xml are
> installed
> E: on your system. On some systems, python-xml is called PyXML. If in
> doubt,
> E: have a look at http://pyxml.sourceforge.net";

I'd rather turn the sheet translation report off when not having
python.  It's not like it's essential functionality for the end user.

-Lars