jack, curses and rpms

[Juergen A. Erhard]

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I recently discovered jack, a CD ripping/MP3 encoding integrator
written in python (cool, I can hack it ;-).

Nice program.

With but one problem... it needs a curses interface (yep, the docs are
right about that, you *need* it).  Which in turn needs a patched
Modules/cursesmodule.c (it doesn't work with the one in 1.5.2).

Okay, so I got cursesmodule.c from the CVS... tried to patch it with
the included diff... which failed.

Huh?

So, I checked that... and found that I needed the cursesmodule.c from
the Python RPMs.  I got that and patched it... and all's well.

Well, not really... the fact that the Python RPMs have a very
different (at least in source, if not in function) cursesmodule.c is
pretty bad.

Some call this fragmentation, some will call the Python RPMs a fork (I
for one will do that).

This situation should be ended *NOW*.[1]

Bye, J

[1] Whoever needs to get together and talk should do so... to sooner,
the better (and the later the worse).  Actually, this should never
have happened to begin with...

PS: Of course, if the changes in the Python RPMs are to be integrated
into Python proper, all will be well again (*when* that has happened).

PPS: I could yammer to the Debian Python maintainer to integrate the
RPM patches into the Debian package... but I won't.  I really want
*one* Python, not several slightly incompatible ones.

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