[desktop-discuss] Multimedia Improvements in OpenSolaris

[Brian Cameron]

Just a quick update on the status I sent out last August.  pigment and
elisa 0.3.2 were recently released and I was able to get them building
and working in spec-files-extra.  elisa really provides a great
interface for interacting with your media, so I'd recommend that people
try it out.

elisa has a few optional dependencies that are not yet available in
spec-files-extra for things like gtkpod, flickr, lirc, etc. support.
So people might who like the interface have an interest in building
spec-files for these optional dependencies.

Brian

> Elisa
> -----
> 
> Over the last few weeks I added spec-files for all the dependencies of
> elisa (SFEpython-imaging, SFEpython-setuptools, SFEpythong-zope-interface,
> SFEpythong-twisted, and SFEpigment).  Elisa and pigment are really
> flashy and worth checking out.  However, there is a problem that
> is causing elisa to not work.  I'm a bit stumped by it, but perhaps
> someone with better python skills could take a look.  When you
> run elisa, it just crashes with this cryptic Python error:
> 
> SystemError: Python/getargs.c:1158: bad argument to internal function
> 
> I've tracked the problem down to pigment 0.3.1.  You can see that there
> is some problem with the pigment python bindings because the C coded
> example programs (such as examples/pgm/text) included with the pigment
> module work fine, but the python ones (such as examples/pypgm/text.py)
> fail with the same error elisa does.

Brian