Re: [Visualpython-users] [ANN] vpython now in fedora

On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 09:55:57 -0600
Bruce Sherwood wrote:

> That's great!
> 
> I'm about to release VPython 5.4 for Windows and Mac, for both Python
> 2.7 and Python 3.1. I had been waiting for a fix to IDLE (and so also
> to VIDLE) for a serious, recently-discovered problem on the Mac, that
> didn't prompt for saving unsaved code when you quit (either command-Q
> or menu Quit). A patch addressing this problem was posted at
> bugs.python.org just today.

FYI: Idle is not in fedora, so I delete the executable right now...

> VPython 5.4 will include the new vis module for selective importing
> from visual, for both Python 2.7 and Python 3.1.

In F-13 is still python 2.6 and only in F-14 python 2.7 and python 3.1,
but in the upcomming F-15 is already an alpha of python 3.2, so if
there are any compiling issues, I guess, I'm the first one, who hits
them ;-)

> I've also been trying to build Visual for Python 3.1 on Ubuntu 10.10
> but have been running into various difficulties and haven't yet
> achieved success. Perhaps we can exchange experiences.

Sure, currently I'm mailing with the numpy packagers to get the python3
package at first, and after that I'll start in compiling a
python3-visual module. Before that, it won't be possible for me...

Greetings,
   Thomas