From: <lin...@ya...> - 2004-08-23 07:17:59
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Congratulations on the reviews! I just finished entering 604 people into gramps. I figure the easiest way to maintain a database of that size amongst distant relations who haven't (yet) embraced linux would be a windows build so all I'd have to do is merge the databases as they're updated. I've got a cygwin box setup, but I haven't yet had time to try building gramps. Hopefully I'll be able to do it by this weekend -- provided it doesn't require any actual porting (beyond possibly rebuilding the source with glade). Any suggestions or comments (as to the build, or gramps in general) would be appreciated. _______________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Win 1 of 4,000 free domain names from Yahoo! Enter now. http://promotions.yahoo.com/goldrush |
From: Alex R. <sh...@al...> - 2004-08-23 13:45:37
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On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 12:17:51AM -0700, lin...@ya... wrote: >=20 > I just finished entering 604 people into gramps. I figure the easiest > way to maintain a database of that size amongst distant relations who > haven't (yet) embraced linux would be a windows build so all I'd have > to do is merge the databases as they're updated. >=20 > I've got a cygwin box setup, but I haven't yet had time to try building > gramps. Hopefully I'll be able to do it by this weekend -- provided it > doesn't require any actual porting (beyond possibly rebuilding the > source with glade). >=20 > Any suggestions or comments (as to the build, or gramps in general) > would be appreciated. AFAIK, gnome has not been ported to win32 yet. This would be a major obstacle in porting gramps, since it depends on gnome libs in some key places (gconf keys, gnome vfs, Help, druids, etc). I'm not sure whether cygwin is completely emulating *nix and whether any *nix library can be built on it -- if you can build gnome and=20 gnome-python then I guess it should not be a problem. Apart from that, there might be some minor issues like pathnames (using '\' instead of '/'). Python provides a platform-independent way (os.sep), but we haven't been consistently using it, so a lot of pathnames have hardcoded '/'. Alex --=20 Alexander Roitman http://ebner.neuroscience.umn.edu/people/alex.html Dept. of Neuroscience, Lions Research Building 2001 6th Street SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 Tel (612) 625-7566 FAX (612) 626-9201 |
From: <lin...@ya...> - 2004-08-23 20:32:24
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--- Alex Roitman <sh...@al...> wrote: > AFAIK, gnome has not been ported to win32 yet. This would be a major > obstacle in porting gramps, since it depends on gnome libs in > some key places (gconf keys, gnome vfs, Help, druids, etc). While I am currently unaware of any projects to port gnome to windows itself, there are a couple of projects to port gnome to cygwin. Perhaps one of the most active that I've stumbled across is cygnome (http://cygnome2.sourceforge.net/). Granted that would yield a cygwin/windows build as opposed to a true windows build. > I'm not sure whether cygwin is completely emulating *nix and whether > any *nix library can be built on it -- if you can build gnome and > gnome-python then I guess it should not be a problem. > > Apart from that, there might be some minor issues like pathnames > (using '\' instead of '/'). Python provides a platform-independent > way (os.sep), but we haven't been consistently using it, so a lot > of pathnames have hardcoded '/'. AFAIK cygwin shouldn't affected, albeit it would be an obstacle to a true windows build. _______________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Win 1 of 4,000 free domain names from Yahoo! Enter now. http://promotions.yahoo.com/goldrush |