On 05/18/2013 05:20 AM, Brian Sidebotham wrote: > On 18 May 2013 05:46, Dick Hollenbeck <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > On May 17, 2013 5:00 PM, "Brian Sidebotham" <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > > > Sorry Dick! Please find the diff attached. It took me ages to sort the > branding out. > It turns out that NSIS is only happy with an 8-bit windows bitmap with no > colourspace > information or run-length-encoding. Once I found that out, I could > generate some > initial bitmaps for the nsis installer. I've attached a few images of > what the > installer steps look like on my machine. > > Looks as good as it can. Thanks for sorting that out. > > > > > > Let me know if you're happy and I'll commit the changes. It re-enables > the NSIS > installer for the package target. > > > > Can we have a variable to test which reenables the zip packaging? So > either can be > built by cmake. > > I assume your higher level cmake scripts, say in winbuilder, will be > easier if python > is installable as a zip. > > I will put both types of packaging at google. > > > I've not excluded the ZIP packaging, so at the moment make package results in > a zip and > installer executable which I guess is right if we're going to supply both > packages. > > Yes, a zip package is easier to deal with for something like winbuilder as it > can be > installed locally and doesn't need to be installed machine-wide. > > > > I've marked all components as "required to be installed" > > > > Is pointing the the installer licence page to the LICENCE file correct? > Or do we > want to do a separate licence file for Python-a-mingw-us? > > It is still python. Python is plagued with an evolutionary license. > What about > simply pointing via url to python's license at python site? That way any > confusion is > pinned there. > > On a-mingus itself, for extension building on windows, maybe a cmake > template, which > has knowledge of header and lib locs? Since no distutils for mingw? > Possibly a > python wrapper to the cmake creation from template process? Could code > the cmake > script tempate in the python wrapper file. Customize it, write out > cmakelists.txt, > with proper dirs and libs and targets in it. Runs cmake, then make, then > make install. > > That sounds like a great idea. It will be good to give support to people who > want to > buiild extensions with it seen as that is it's main purpose. I'll look into > that next. I > have been looking at SWIG recently, so I'm a bit more familiar with python > extension > writing. SWIG and <stdbool.h> don't play nice together at all :( > > Anyway, I'll commit the changes now.
Brian, I built the two NSIS installers and put them at code.google.com. I tried the 32 bit one on Win2K, my only windows laptop. (I had to sweet talk it into booting.) I chose to install a desktop icon, chose to add python to the path for single user only, although I was user Admin. Here are some things I noticed: a) All the files get installed, but the progress bar did not actually go all the way to the right, so I am suspicious that some kind of abort happened before completion. b) The desktop icon was never visible. (Right, what desktop icon?) c) The path did not have C:\python\2.7.4\bin in it. d) I ran python.exe anyways, and readline extension was definitely not in play. I don't see where PYTHONHOME is being set to the install dir, like the website says to do: http://code.google.com/p/python-a-mingw-us/ After setting PYTHONPATH manually, readline extension still not look like it was active. I expected to be able to press the up arrow key and see a previous expression entry line. I did push the two NSIS installers to the website for other more experienced windows users to test on more contemporary versions of Windows. I can add you as an ADMIN at google website if you would like, so you can push your own revisions. Would need account info, say privately. Dick _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
