Re: Providing wxGlade executable

In addition,

I just check and my host (RHEL7) has wxPython-2.8.12.0-9.

So, no Phoenix yet. I guess whoever maintains it still waits for more
packages to become stable with Phoenix.

Thank you.

On Fri, Dec 7, 2018 at 5:31 PM Igor Korot <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi, Diedtmar,
>
> On Fri, Dec 7, 2018 at 5:16 PM Dietmar Schwertberger
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Igor!
> >
> > On 08.12.2018 00:00, Igor Korot wrote:
> > > Would it be possible to generate Windows executable and make it available
> > > to download for wxGlade?
> > >
> > > The project I'm working on needs an upgrade from 2.8 to 3.0 and I'd
> > > like to regenerate couple of forms.
> > >
> > > Problem is - the code is written in C++ and it is hard to get an
> > > approval even to install Phoenix/python.
> > Personally, I will not work on installers or executables.
> > Are you aware that it is not necessary to "install" Python?
> >
> > If you install Python on one PC and copy the directory with the
> > installation to another PC you can just execute the python.exe with a
> > script file name as argument.
> > It might be necessary to place some DLLs in the same directory (e.g.
> > vcruntime140.dll). IIRC Pythonwin was a bit critical.
> >
> > I have been doing this for more than 15 years. The "portable"
> > installation can be run from the network or from a local drive.
> > Depending on the requirements, I have a script that installs some
> > registry keys or I just have a .bat file that calls the Python
> > interpreter with the .py file as argument.
> >
> > (Honestly, coming from a RISC OS background, I never understood why
> > people want to have installers...)
> >
> > I think there are also portable installations for download.
> >
> > If your company policy is not to run installers for file types, you
> > should be able to solve your problem this way. If your company policy
> > forbids to run .exe files, then you can't solve your problem...
>
> Here is the situation,
> I have to have an approval for every single piece of software that
> needs to be installed on the system
> (installed here means run or executed)
> In order to be approved the software needs to be maintained, have a
> regular releases and a maintainer who can be
> contacted if needed.
> The main development of our application is done on RHEL6 VM currently.
> Trying to install this on RHEL6 fails with the message "No dependency
> is satisfied", because it requires wxPython-2.8.12
> which is not available.
> Trying to install it on the host machine with RHEL7 64-bit machine
> also fails because it requires higher version of python
> than we have.
>
> So, since we also have Windows VM I though of getting it to install on
> Windows, but we don't have a dev environment
> there - no {wx}python at all.
>
> And we couldn't wait for latest python to hit RHEL6/7 repository -
> pretty soon the program goes to a different company for
> maintenance.
>
> It would be nice of course to generate and rpm based on different
> versions of python3, but that would be a disaster for you.
>
> Hence the request to create a binary executable for the wxGlade that
> can be run on Windows.
>
> Thank you.
>
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Dietmar
> >
> >
> >
> >
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