wxPython builds (was Re: [Chandler-dev] Brain dump of rearchitecture thoughts)

On 18 Sep, 2008, at 10:20, Sebastian Hilbert wrote:

> On Donnerstag 18 September 2008, Jeffrey Harris wrote:
>> ...
>
>> To make it easier for casual developers to try things out, could we
>> make wx and PyICU eggs and put them on PyPI, so the whole application
>> is just an easy_install away?  It looks like Robin has worked on
>> making a wx egg...
>
> I have used the stock wxpython on openSUSE just fine. Same for pyicu  
> which I
> packaged as rpm to be standalone. if could get around that pylucene  
> hell in
> time I think chandler could fully work off stock libraries of  
> distributions.
>
> With GNUmed we are in the same situation. Ship our own libraries for  
> wx,
> python, pypgsql and many more.
>
> If you opt to make it run on the distribution's stock packages it  
> will see a
> larger userbase. Potential users are potential developers.

I agree :D. For the old codebase, it turns out that OSAF has a number  
of additions/bugfixes to stock wxPython, and so Chandler won't run  
against stock wxPython-2.8.8.1, for example. (It'll complain about  
missing classes/methods when it tries to load the UI). Many of those  
changes would be pretty useful to stock wxPython, so it would be good  
to find a way to get them back to the mother ship ... I might look  
into that at some point.

I haven't tested any of the demo code we did in the architecture pilot  
project, but hopefully we won't have a need for anything other than  
stock wxPython.

On a related note, I tried to create a wxPython binary egg on my Mac  
(just to see how that would go). It turns out that once you've done a  
build of the wx libraries (*), you can create a working egg by running  
"python setup.py bdist_egg" inside the wxPython directory. I haven't  
ever used setuptools's bdist_rpm or bdist_deb (?) commands, but maybe  
those would work here, too.

--Grant

(*) not an entirely trivial task, viz:

http://wxpython.org/BUILD.html

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