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| author | Hunter Sezen <orbea@fredslev.dk> | 2018-03-15 21:01:45 +0000 |
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| committer | Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org> | 2018-03-17 08:51:49 +0700 |
| commit | 9d0aa2e4ae70204b7adab248c718efec007ad43c (patch) | |
| tree | 4cbbe262d17d51714377cb2d207da78f844455c0 /python/python-xlib/README | |
| parent | 0cd6e1cb06f9cf541e98798e5357bf7b7c27ea60 (diff) | |
| download | slackbuilds-9d0aa2e4ae70204b7adab248c718efec007ad43c.tar.gz | |
python/python-xlib: Updated for version 0.21 + new maintainer.
Signed-off-by: David Spencer <idlemoor@slackbuilds.org>
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| -rw-r--r-- | python/python-xlib/README | 21 |
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diff --git a/python/python-xlib/README b/python/python-xlib/README index 49962b13a9..0f8c15d1ee 100644 --- a/python/python-xlib/README +++ b/python/python-xlib/README @@ -1,6 +1,17 @@ -The Python X library is intended to be a fully functional X client for Python -programs. It is written entirely in Python, in ontrast to earlier X libraries -for Python. This is possible to do since X client programs communicate with -the X server via the X protocol. The communication takes over TCP/IP, Unix -sockets, or any other streaming network protocol. +The Python X Library is intended to be a fully functional X client +library for Python programs. It is written entirely in Python, in +contrast to earlier X libraries for Python which were interfaces to +the C Xlib. +This is possible to do since X client programs communicate with the X +server via the X protocol. The communication takes place over TCP/IP, +Unix sockets, DECnet or any other streaming network protocol. The C +Xlib is merely an interface to this protocol, providing functions +suitable for a C environment. + +Python3 is an optional dependency and python3-six is required if built +with python3 support. + +setuptools-scm is only required as a build dependency and can be +skipped if you would rather have it automatically grabbed from +pypi.python.org during the build process. |