On Wednesday, January 19, 2011 19:49:54 Jason Tackaberry wrote: > Hi Juan, > > On Wed, 2011-01-19 at 17:16 -0300, Juan Manuel Santos wrote: > > I believe this library is Unix only, so here goes my question: is it > > possible to build and install Kaa under Windows, or is this not > > supported? > > Windows is definitely a platform dischi and I never cared to support. > In fact, no thought was ever given to non-unix platforms during the > development of any kaa modules. Consequently it's never been tested, > isn't supported by us, and Windows-specific patches almost certainly > wouldn't be considered for merging. > > There isn't a _huge_ dependency on kaa.base in kaa.metadata. You'd > probably have more luck emancipating kaa.metadata from kaa.base and > tweaking the remainder than trying to make kaa.base work on Windows. > > There's the kaa.distribution stuff that setup.py imports, but you could > probably rewrite that with standard distutils. It wouldn't be as robust > but it would get you far enough. > > Then you could copy some of the dependent functions from kaa.utils > (which is part of kaa.base) like property (actually not needed if you > use Python 2.6), the Singleton class, and some of the helper functions > in kaa.strutils. > > All this perhaps requires more motivation than you have, especially > given that none of the changes you make to kaa.metadata would be useful > upstream. > > Probably not the answer you were looking for, but there it is. :) > > Cheers, > Jason. >
Thanks for your reply Jason. You were right actually :) I don't have the time nor the motivation to do that rewrite, and I know it won't be useful to you guys because that would practically be ditching kaa-base and it's a really big change to make it work on Windows. I think I'll have to skip loading kaa-metadata on Windows unfortunately. But thanks again for your reply. Cheers, Juan Manuel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Protect Your Site and Customers from Malware Attacks Learn about various malware tactics and how to avoid them. Understand malware threats, the impact they can have on your business, and how you can protect your company and customers by using code signing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl _______________________________________________ Freevo-devel mailing list Freevo-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-devel
