From john_lists at johnnorvell.net  Thu Mar 18 02:01:30 2010
From: john_lists at johnnorvell.net (John Norvell)
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:01:30 -0700
Subject: [Weft QDA users] weft and linux software requirements
Message-ID: <4BA1C1BA.7060200@johnnorvell.net>

Hello, I would really like to install and try Weft, but as a Gentoo
user, it seems I would have to downgrade many of my installed packages,
complicating other dependencies and so forth, to meet the requirements
listed on the Weft page, especially wxwidgets 2.4 and wxruby. Is there a
version, maybe an alpha or beta, that works with wxruby2 and wxwidgets 2.6?

John Norvell
Visiting Scholar
Pitzer College
Claremont, CA 91711


From alex at pressure.to  Thu Mar 18 03:47:05 2010
From: alex at pressure.to (Alex Fenton)
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 07:47:05 +0000
Subject: [Weft QDA users] weft and linux software requirements
In-Reply-To: <4BA1C1BA.7060200@johnnorvell.net>
References: <4BA1C1BA.7060200@johnnorvell.net>
Message-ID: <4BA1DA79.8000602@pressure.to>

Hi John

On 18/03/2010 06:01, John Norvell wrote:
> Hello, I would really like to install and try Weft, but as a Gentoo
> user, it seems I would have to downgrade many of my installed packages,
> complicating other dependencies and so forth, to meet the requirements
> listed on the Weft page, especially wxwidgets 2.4 and wxruby. Is there a
> version, maybe an alpha or beta, that works with wxruby2 and wxwidgets 2.6?
>    

Thanks for your interest, but I'm afraid I can't offer much good news. 
The evolution of Linux has meant that the dependencies for 1.0 are too 
old to fulfil now. Weft 2.0 is based on much more modern packages, but 
isn't complete enough to consider.

The Weft codebase hasn't developed for a year at least, and I can't see 
me picking it up again soon. Though I still think it's a needed project 
- both to produce a free tool, and a better, simpler, lighter QDA 
package - it's just not relevant enough to my own current research to 
justify the time it'd need.

best
alex