On Jan 1, 7:47 am, lkcl <luke.leigh...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Dec 31 2008, 9:54 pm, Mike Driscoll <kyoso...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Dec 31, 3:36 pm,lkcl<luke.leigh...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > > hiya mike: where do i know you from? i've heard your name somewhere > > > and for the life of me can't remember where! anyway... onwards. > > > I don't know...while your username looks vaguely familiar, I don't > > think I've communicated with you recently. I spend most of my time on > > the wxPython list now... > > i think it might be from my old school - i could be confusing you > with > someone, though - "gary driscoll", perhaps? anyway, never mind :) > > > > testing: you should really use a debootstrap absolute "basic" > > > environment (set up a chroot, or a virtual KVM or other virtual PC, > > > qemu, whatever, or even a real machine) do NOT do a "full" install of > > > ubuntu, do an absolute minimalist install (netbook, businesscard, > > > whatever). > > > I thought the general practice was to test on the closest software/ > > hardware combo that your application was most likely to run on. > > that you should do as well :) you should be able to either upgrade > the bare-bones version using "tasksel install desktop" or just... > what-the-heck, install on a vanilla combo. > > http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/intrepid/main/installer-i386/c... > > archive.ubuntu.com appears offline at the moment - maybe it'll be > back later. i recommend you go for the mini.iso >
Ok...thanks for the info! > > I have > > heard of doing testing on the lowest common denominator before though. > > Unfortunately, I don't have time to set up a bare-bones VM since we're > > closing soon, but I may give this a go on Friday and report back. > > ok - the issue that you will face if you _don't_ do a LCD test is > that > should ubuntu get upgraded, and one of the packages that _used_ to > pull > in a dependency [that you missed] no longer does so... I see. I had hoped that there was a way to create a frozen application like I do with py2exe on Windows so I wouldn't have to worry about a Linux upgrade breaking my application. I've been told that PyInstaller might do the trick too. Either way, I'll post the solution that works for me. Happy New Year! Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
