Karmic Koala Repo?

[Adam]

If you look at:

http://linux.pythonxy.com/ubuntu/dists/

you'll see that there's no release for Karmic Koala (Ubuntu 9.10).
What gives?

[Mike Sarahan]

If you look at:

http://groups.google.com/group/pythonxy-linux?hl=en (this google
group's homepage)

you'll see that not only has this question already been asked, it has
also been answered. Why not ask if there is something you could do to
help make a release happen? Otherwise, you are wasting time that is
already in short supply (and that's why there is not a current
release.)

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[Adam]

Or you could be a gigantic jerk about it. It was just a question ...
hadn't seen the other thread.

On Mar 17, 9:01 am, Mike Sarahan <msara...@gmail.com> wrote:
> If you look at:
>

> http://groups.google.com/group/pythonxy-linux?hl=en(this google

> group's homepage)
>
> you'll see that not only has this question already been asked, it has
> also been answered.  Why not ask if there is something you could do to
> help make a release happen?  Otherwise, you are wasting time that is
> already in short supply (and that's why there is not a current
> release.)
>

[Mike Sarahan]

If you know how to make packages for Ubuntu, that would be the most
helpful. I think the person who has done the most work is Tim, who
started a PPA (personal package archive):

https://edge.launchpad.net/~pythonxy

If there are any parts of Python X,Y that you use (or would like to
use), package them up, and submit them to the PPA. There is a
tutorial on how to make packages here:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=51003

You will need to know how to compile things from source. It's not
hard at all when things work the way they should. Here's a couple of
tutorials:

http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/softinstall.html
Ubuntu-specific (tells you a prerequisite package):
http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-install-source-files-in-ubuntu.html

You'll probably find that it is much easier to simply install things
from source than to package them. You will be helping people a lot if
you do the extra work to make the package, though. If you get hung up
on part of it, I will try to help you. I'm sure Tim or any of the
others would also.

-Mike

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 7:45 PM, Adam Gustafson
<adam.marc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Alright sorry I didn't catch that one before.  Well, what can other people
> do to help?  I'm not terribly familiar with the coding necessary to get up a
> release for Karmic.  What needs to be done?
>
> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 4:30 PM, Mike Sarahan <msar...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I'm sorry, that was rather crass of me.  Everyone is guilty of missing
>> a thread at some point.  When you want to ask something like that,
>> though, it's better to not point out the obvious followed by "What
>> gives?"
>>
>> Something like "what's the status of Python X,Y on 9.10?" would go
>> over much better than "what gives?" - the latter implies that people
>> are not working on it at all, and does not acknowledge any of the hard
>> work that people have done.  It's all volunteer labor.