On 8 June 2013 23:43, Keegan Witt <keeganwitt gmail com> wrote:Sure. This isn't a huge deal, it's just that without it we're shipping
> I would like to get the source for Portable Python (that's been a long time
> request), but there's not too much of a worry in that you're not using
> closed-source binaries, it's just the source for the installer isn't open
> yet. See the conversation here:
> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/portablepython/H6eygvoIepA/QQxcrWLgRYcJ.
stuff we can't rebuild from source, and so we really can't serve it
from gnome.org. In some golden future if we get to a stage where we
have a Windows build running from the repository (with *lots* of
external packages, obviously), then brilliant.
I don't know that I can do much, but if you have continuing issues
with installer hosting please bring it up! I don't want to see this
resource go away.
Nope... I'm pretty sure it looked complicated because it's really
> I
> only looked very briefly at doing py2exe, it looked a bit complicated to get
> GTK working with it, though it's very possible this was because of my lack
> of Python knowledge.
complicated! One of the huge downsides of using PyGTK is that we get
to ship GTK + sundry, PyGTK + sundry and, if we're really lucky,
Python + sundry. It's not simple. I had a stab at doing this on OSX a
while ago and got a working package, but could never recreate the
build environment with any success.
cheers,
Kai
> On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 4:15 PM, Kai Willadsen <kai willadsen gmail com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On 4 June 2013 10:36, Keegan Witt <keeganwitt gmail com> wrote:
>> > I've uploaded a new installer for Windows:
>> > https://code.google.com/p/meld-installer/ for this release. Note that
>> > sometime this year, I'll be moving this to SourceForge
>> > (https://sourceforge.net/projects/meldinstaller/) since Google Code has
>> > decided to axe downloads and GitHub had done the same even before I
>> > started
>> > this project.
>>
>> Yeah this is obviously turning out to be a run-around for you. If we
>> ever get to a point where the base portable-python thing is open
>> source then making an official Windows build and distributing via
>> gnome.org would be a useful goal. However, while there are
>> effectively-closed-source blobs in there that's not really an option.
>>
>> I also haven't looked into other packaging options on Windows to see
>> whether we can use something more vanilla like py2exe or similar.
>> Maybe someone else knows such things better than I?
>>
>> cheers,
>> Kai
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