Hi Andy, 2012/5/27 Andy Frances <[email protected]>: > On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 4:01 PM, Thomas Perl <[email protected]> wrote: >> The generated setup.py file should be okay - you can edit the >> description there if you want and make sure that the maintainer name >> and e-mail is okay. The "scripts=" tells which script is used as >> "main" application script. > > The default is installing the main programme (showcoordinates) in the > home/andrew directory of my N9 > (which is the same as my home machine, a Ubuntu machine)? How do I change > this to go in say, /opt > on the N9?
No, the default for PySide Assistant should be to install into /usr. What did you change from the defaults? For most of my projects, I'm not using PySide Assistant directly, but do the packaging via debhelper and friends. I do understand that PSA is easier for people to use. My installation schema is usually the following: /opt/<packagename>/bin/<packagename> - the main program /opt/<packagename>/lib/ - python library modules go here (add this to sys.path) /opt/<packagename>/qml/ - QML files and related stuff (e.g. images for the UI) /opt/<packagename>/... - other files that the program needs (resources, etc..) /opt/<packagename>/<packagename>.png - the icon /usr/share/applications/<packagename>.desktop - the desktop file > On the Joshua King blog, he talks about setting sys.prefix. However it is > unclear to me where this is set? > I am assuming setup.py. I know from using setup.py, I can give setup.py > command line options like prefix. You can get all accepted options for the "install" comamnd via "python setup.py --help install". It should be --prefix (python setup.py --prefix=/opt/mypackage/ install). >> In the generated folder there should be a showcoordinates.png file >> that you can replace with your own (80x80 PNG) icon. To create an >> icon, you can go to this URL and download the "Nokia Icon Toolkit" >> .zip file which includes an SVG template for the squircle with the >> right colors and guide lines, etc..: > > Thanks. On a related note, I don't see an icon generated for my application > (yes yes it is a command line programme). Which version of PySide Assistant are you using? I've tried it with the current Git master branch HEAD (https://github.com/PySide/PySideAssistant) and a "psa init" did add the .png file there. > Another question: my aegis manifest is empty. I am assuming it is my > responsible to populate it accordingly? Yes, although you only need it if you use some APIs. A list of which APIs need which tokens can be found here: http://harmattan-dev.nokia.com/docs/library/html/guide/html/Developer_Library_Developing_for_Harmattan_Harmattan_security_Security_guide_Harmattan_APIs_that_require_credentials.html > To put everything into context, for now I want the ability to run command > line programmes that need the security properly > set. I thought that Pyside Assistant would take care of the Aegis framework > for me. I am happy to invoke the programme from the > command line or from pressing an icon. I've created a mini-package about a week ago that has permissions for the calendar (because I wanted to play with the Qt Mobility Organizer APIs interactively to see how I can get the data). The binary package is here: http://thp.io/2012/maemo/python-organizer-console_1.0.0_all.deb You can get the source package with the "dget" utility from here: http://thp.io/2012/maemo/python-organizer-console_1.0.0.dsc It shows, among other things: - how to use only debhelper and no PSA - how to create a script that gives an interactive console - how an .aegis file could look like (in debian/) If the PSA patches that make it install into /opt are not merged soon, and there is demand for an easier solution, I might just publish a short guide that shows how to use debhelper 7 and some makefile/setup.py magic to create packaging for a simple Harmattan Python app from scratch (but I would love for someone to get PSA into a "Store ready" state, because that's what PSA is all about IMHO ;). HTH :) Thomas _______________________________________________ PySide mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/pyside
