Re: [Boa Constr] ANN: Boa Constructor 0.1.0-alpha

[Riaan B. <riaan@e.co.za>]

Hi John,

Bell John wrote:
> 
> Excellent!!!  I've on;y recently looked seriously at
> Boa and was about to give up due to the 2.3.2 issue!
> This has come Just in Time for me.

Good to hear :)

> 
> A couple of minor immediate issues:
> 
> (1) Obviously you're packaging from a Microsoft
> platform.  There is a minor problem in that text files
> are not marked as such in the zip-file and thus unzip
> -a doesn't clean up the <CRLF> -> <LF> transformation
> when loading into Linux.  This leads to a peculiar
> startup problem (something like : not found).

My zipper doesn't have this option (I didn't even know you could!)
This sounds very useful, I'll look into this for the next release.
Distutils currently creates a corrupt zip when I build a source distro
so I had to zip it myself.

I tested the zip distro on Linux many times (not the same one ;)
and it always worked first time, please report where the breakage
happens.

> 
> (2) Some files still have "#!/bin/env python" in their
> startup.  the path to "env" should be "/usr/bin" for
> all 3 linuxes I've got and HP-UX and Solaris, so
> probably pretty much any *IX.

I'll take your word for this. I found only one, pylint, fixed now.

> (3) Some files have "#! /usr/bin..."  The space after
> the "!" will throw some unices.

Ok, I changed it, but some of these are from the standard python 
library so you should probably tell them too.

These aren't used as scripts so it shouldn't matter to Boa too much.

> 
> (4) I don't know if you've seen this, but on Linux/GTK
> exiting Boa without saving anything causes a core
> dump.

If you can consistently cause a seg fault, look at Boa's tracing 
facility to pin point the problem. I would really appreciate this.

> 
> As I say they're pretty minor problems, but hey may as
> well get everything clean for 1.0!

Yes, death to the bugs!
Boa on wxGTK needs more work than on wxMSW. I wish someone could 
help out on Linux :(

> 
> Now that I've got something operational I'll see what
> I can build over the next few days and report any
> broken bits I find.
> 
> Once again, it's great to see the project back on the
> road again.

I don't have as much time for Boa as before :(

> 
> John Bell
> 

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Riaan Booysen
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