Re: Release blockers

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Steve!

On Thu, 12 Dec 2019 14:19:42 -0600 (CST)
Steve Bourland <address@hidden> wrote:

> I'm 99% confident the problem I am running into is on my
> requirements, but I have been struggling all morning.  Downloaded
> master yesterday afternoon (Central Time), working on building from
> source on a fresh Ubuntu 18.04.3 install.  First run of scons worked
> and indicated it built everything, but now stuck on scons check with:

Ubuntu 18 is a pretty important platform.  It needs to work.

> >>> gi.version_info  
> (3, 26, 1)
> >>> gi.require_version('Gtk', '3.0')  

Looks like you do not have Python Gtk installed.

Python 3.8.0 (default, Dec  6 2019, 02:51:53) 
[...]
>>> gi.version_info  
(3, 32, 1)
>>> gi.require_version('Gtk', '3.0')  
>>>

I'm not much of a Gtk person, but it seems to me that your 3.26.1 should
be OK when my 3.32.1 works.

>      raise ValueError('Namespace %s not available' % namespace)
> ValueError: Namespace Gtk not available

But you do not have python Gtk installed.

Are you sure you have the python Gtk, Gdk and GLib modules installed?

I have no idea what Ubuntu packages have those.  Sadly that is undocumented.

On Gentoo it is in dev-python/pygobject

> If I use a python3 shell (Python 3.6.8) I get the same results.
> Trying to help out with some testing, but not going so super well for
> me, sorry.

Finding doc problems, like this one, is the purpose of testing.  The
doc needs to better tell you what to install, and the error message 
needs to be better at telling you what you have yet to install.

RGDS
GARY
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