Downloaded a PyKDE snapshot tonight in the hope to get the PyKDE / PyQT / Python 2.4 toolchain running in order to get a more clear idea
of problems loading guidance programs into kcontrol.
Finally got all the python 2.4 stuff to work, but according to apt there are still a couple
of things dependent on python 2.3, which I wanted to remove completely. Ow well…
I the course of compiling PyKDE, I encountered a compile error which was caused by refering
to a long gone qlist.h, removed that, stuff compiled, sebas was happy. Sent that as a patch to the
PyKDE mailinglist, hoping it’ll help someone, maybe it’ll even make it into the next release.
Finally I could get back to work on guidance, and I had my toolchain updated so I
could be a little more sure that the more obscure bugs can be fixed by myself and will not at some
point just vanish by installing a binary compatible package and noticing that three weeks later,
still not knowing what had been wrong.
The rest of the evening I tried to get clear what was
causing the problems, it boiled down to my system having been confused by our installation script.
Apparently not everything was quite ready for python 2.4. Well, now it should be. And then I found
the root of a problem which I was seeing for more than a month and which crashed the kcontrol module
upon switching to Administrator Mode. Not too interesting, boiled down to stricter type
checking which is generally a good thing.
Well, fixed a couple of bugs which had me bothered for quite some time already, which is
good. Let’s hope they don’t break too much … Ow, and last week it became more clear that we’re
making a good chance to get guidance into Kubuntu soonish,
which is very exciting. :-)