Re: [Bitpim-devel] bitpim (CVS) and wxPython 2.5.x (CVS) do not get along...

[Roger B. <ro...@ro...>]

>   VERY Strange... I didn't change that bit of code except to make it
> wx.lib.pubsub isntead of wxPython.lib.pubsub. It was importing
> Publication in the code I had downloaded from CVS.

The word 'Publication' doesn't show up in any greps.  It does
import Publisher.

I am very happy to change stuff from 'from wxPython.wx import*'
to 'import wx'.  All the new code has been written that way and
I have been slowly changing over the old code.

>   Well, it's a good use of my time if it allows me to use the project on
> my system, which I cannot use otherwise. ;-) 

You seem to be saying that standard wxPython 2.4 doesn't work.
I was under the impression it does work fine on Macs.  There
may be some glitches, but I will happily fix those.  One
example is that multi-line text boxes on Windows default to 
about 10 lines in length, whereas on Linux they defautl to zero.
There will be stuff like that and I will certainly fix it
if I know about it!

The preferred versions are Python 2.3(.x) and wxPython 2.4.2.4
on all platforms.  (On Linux I actually ship with Python 2.2
but that is because it is what Redhat ships.)

>   I will see what I can do. Theoretically, if everything is bundled
> right, you may even be able to take a given package and just drop the
> new .py modules into it to do an update. Maybe. I'm not sure. I'll get
> back to you on it.

The bundling isn't done that way.  What happens is that a copy
of interpretter is taken, and all the .py files it imports
are compiled to .pyc/.pyo and placed in a zip and appended to 
the Python exe.  The Python exe is frigged to do an import 
from the zip file.  Any shared libraries are placed alongside
the Python executable and the import process suitably frigged
to find them.  This makes everything standalone and independent
of anything the user may already have installed on their machine.
Here is what the Windows installation looks like:

09/09/2003  03:18 PM               437 bitpim.css
12/02/2003  02:47 PM           887,712 bitpim.exe
08/20/2003  01:26 PM               655 bitpim.exe.manifest
10/01/2003  12:40 PM            61,440 calendarc.pyd
10/02/2003  08:03 PM            45,116 datetime.pyd
10/01/2003  12:40 PM           286,720 gizmosc.pyd
10/01/2003  12:40 PM           299,008 gridc.pyd
10/01/2003  12:40 PM            36,864 helpc.pyd
10/01/2003  12:40 PM           196,608 htmlc.pyd
10/02/2003  08:03 PM            45,114 parser.pyd
10/02/2003  08:02 PM           974,908 python23.dll
09/02/2003  11:01 AM            86,084 PyWinTypes23.dll
12/02/2003  02:47 PM    <DIR>          resources
10/02/2003  08:04 PM            20,538 select.pyd
09/02/2003  11:01 AM            61,497 win32api.pyd
09/02/2003  11:01 AM            28,731 win32event.pyd
09/02/2003  11:01 AM            73,786 win32file.pyd
10/01/2003  12:40 PM         2,240,512 wxc.pyd
10/01/2003  10:43 AM         3,239,936 wxmsw24h.dll
10/02/2003  08:04 PM            61,496 zlib.pyd
10/02/2003  08:02 PM            49,211 _socket.pyd
10/02/2003  08:03 PM            57,400 _sre.pyd
10/02/2003  08:03 PM           495,616 _ssl.pyd
10/02/2003  08:04 PM            36,864 _winreg.pyd

This is what the Linux installation looks like:

-r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root        21083 Aug 30  2002 binascii.so
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          432 Sep 10 10:33 bitpim.css
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      3376339 Sep 10 10:33 bp
-r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root        21857 Aug 30  2002 cStringIO.so
-r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root        11875 Aug 30  2002 errnomodule.so
-r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root        16192 Aug 30  2002 fcntlmodule.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      7041941 Jun 17 16:10 libwx_gtkd-2.4.so
-r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root        16640 Aug 30  2002 _localemodule.so
-r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root        16985 Aug 30  2002 mathmodule.so
-r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root        20997 Aug 30  2002 operator.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       115593 Aug 30  2002 pcre.so
-r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root         9656 Aug 30  2002 pwdmodule.so
-r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root        22615 Aug 30  2002 readline.so
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Sep 10 10:50 resources
-r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root        17193 Aug 30  2002 selectmodule.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        67015 Aug 30  2002 strop.so
-r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root        26886 Aug 30  2002 structmodule.so
-r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root        20064 Aug 30  2002 termios.so
-r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root        19939 Aug 30  2002 timemodule.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       241542 Sep 10 10:33 wxPython.calendarc.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      1443747 Sep 10 10:33 wxPython.gizmosc.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       820765 Sep 10 10:33 wxPython.gridc.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       174711 Sep 10 10:33 wxPython.helpc.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       608397 Sep 10 10:33 wxPython.htmlc.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      6277757 Sep 10 10:33 wxPython.wxc.so
-r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root        21882 Aug 30  2002 zlibmodule.so

On Windows I use py2exe to build this.  On Linux I use cxFreeze.
The cxFreeze author was trying to port it to Mac, but doesn't own
one himself and so was using the SourceForge Mac servers which
don't have very good availability.

For what to do on Macs, see this message:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/pythonmac-sig/2003-November/009246.html

Roger