Re: gnumeric python console under gentoo

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 09:34:32AM +0200, Jon-Kare Hellan wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-09-19 at 01:57, M. D. Berg wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> >  I have been trying to follow the directions located at
> > http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~ctwardy/starting-with-python.html#console
> > to get the gnumeric python console. My operating system is Gentoo Linux
> > using the 2.6 kernel. In my "use" line I have included python, libgda,
> > gb, evo. libgsf-1.10.0 is already installed. 
> >
> >  I have taken the comments out of the python-loader/plugin.xml file.
> >
> >  But still no Tools -> Python console.
> >
> >  Does anyone have an idea of what I did wrong? I would greatly
> > appreciate any suggestions. 
>
> If you are using 1.3, that's the explanation. The Python console uses
> features which haven't been ported to 1.3 yet.
>
> With 1.2, you should grab a patch from
> http://jk.ufisa.uninett.no/gnumeric/ which solves some memory corruption
> issues.

A variant of the ui service is now in cvs and will be in 1.3.92.
This was the last blocker for 1.4.x