On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 23:16 -0600, Steve Borho wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 23:35 -0300, Germán Póo-Caamaño wrote:
> > # HG changeset patch
> > # User Germán Póo-Caamaño <[email protected]>
> > # Date 1233974039 10800
> > # Node ID cc127a67a83c2c27015693977208751b5c2a750f
> > # Parent 11b2b0c0302705e1a0ee856998a4aa2b21a198bb
> > setup: enable installation on posix systems.
>
> Pushed, thanks.
>
> Would you be interested in figuring out what we need to do to make
> binary packages on Linux for tortoisehg and it's nautilus integration?
Well, there are some issues, mainly related with the fact that packages
must be relocatable.
To be known:
1. The license text should installed under usr/share (please note
that I it is usr/share not /usr/share), so the about dialog
fails because it tries to read it from the root of tortoisehg
using: (os.path.join(prog_root, "COPYING.txt")). When I
converted some dialogs to XML (libglade or GtkBuilder) this
wasn't an issue anymore because it was included in the XML file,
however I was told an XML file was not an option.
2. The nautilus extension depends on TORTOISEHG_PATH, but we don't
know the PATH where tortoisehg will be installed.
3. A similar issue will happen with icons for Nautilus extension.
4. I haven't seen if the generated file for version will be an
issue yet.
For instance, the package must allow to run commands like:
$ python setup.py install --home
or
$ python setup.py install --root=/usr/local
or any other combination different than the usual. Hardcoding the PATH
because we could expect them to be installed under / is ugly and it
won't be accepted in downstream.
I don't know how to get the prefix or base install directory used when
setup.py is ran. One possible workaround could writing that path in a
file and to be read in runtime by the application.
Packages that uses easy_install, includes all files inside a same root
(like the used currently), but I don't how it works for win-nt
installations.
On the other hand, these must separated in two packages: the nautilus
extension and tortoisehg itself. Some users doesn't use nautilus, but
still they would like to use hgtk.
Some time ago I built them using the work started by Peter Arrenbrecht,
you can find them at https://launchpad.net/~gpoo/+archive/ppa
I didn't make any advance before getting the setup patch accepted, but I
do remember the issues :-)
Ideas?
--
Germán Póo-Caamaño
http://www.calcifer.org/
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