On Sat, 2009-02-07 at 13:27 -0600, Steve Borho wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-02-07 at 11:23 -0300, Germán Póo-Caamaño wrote:
> > 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.
> [...]
> > I didn't make any advance before getting the setup patch accepted, but I
> > do remember the issues :-)
>
> Have you looked at hgview's setup.py? They seem to be further along in
> tackling this issue.
>
> I'm thinking of having setup.py generate a __paths__.py file just like
> it generates a __version__.py. Though both of those files should live
> under hggtk so they they can be found easily. There's no need to
> install the tortoise/ package on posix systems.
I wrote a workaround for Debian packages in nautilus extension.
However, it is not possible to apply the same workaround in RPM packages
(limitations of RPM) or for installations through setup.py.
There are two other cases remaining:
1. hggtk/shlib.py set THG_ICON_PATH in a non portable way. I could
apply something similar, so it will work for Debian packages.
2. Every text file (such as COPYING.txt) is packages gzipped.
For the second case, I think it doesn't worth the effort to fix it and
it can wait for the moment. I would simply remove the menu 'about' from
the nautilus extension, because currently:
1. It pollutes the menu, and nautilus doesn't show the menu in the
same order. So, it looks ugly when 'About' is the first option
when the user is expecting to execute an action.
2. It is not a killer feature (it is not a feature at all). The
user base may be increased if we provide packages, they can get
that information from the download's webpage. In the future,
they can get the information from a stand-alone application
and/or from a proper button/menu.
The repository is located at https://bitbucket.org/gpoo/thg-debian/
Instructions available in the wiki page and the README file.
--
Germán Póo-Caamaño
http://www.calcifer.org/
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