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[Pythoncad-developer] Adverse comment in Ratings and Reviews

[Yagnesh D. <yn...@gm...>]

Friends;

There is a food for thought for all of us. Thumbs down comment does
have some truth in it.

QUOTE:
#   Thumbs down

your packaging is completely fucked up ( extacting to
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/ ?! .pyc files?!) and there is not
even a hint as to how to start the thing, let alone any sort of
documentation. Here's a clue: YouTube videos of the fillet (more…)
your packaging is completely fucked up ( extacting to
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/ ?! .pyc files?!) and there is not
even a hint as to how to start the thing, let alone any sort of
documentation. Here's a clue: YouTube videos of the fillet command
don't do a damn thing if there's no way to launch the program. Would a
README file kill you? It seems like you took over an alpha, but usable
project and turned it into an amateur hour trainwreck that only you
understand.
:UNQUOTE

As a first timer I also had faced some difficulties installing PythonCAD.
Few things that I can make out is

1. README file do not tell any thing on how to install.
     - Let us put one line under readme file which tells about refer
INSTALL file to do installation.
     - Do we need to run setup.py ? What I do is just download the R38
dir and run gtkpycad.py to run pythoncad.
     - Also we use gtkpycad.py  can it not be named pythoncad.py to
look more obvious for first timer.

2. On documentation front :
     - Can we transfer our wiki
(http://morgul.no-ip.com/dokuwiki/doku.php) to
http://pythoncad.sourceforge.net/ there seems a way to host a dokuwiki
on this home page.
     - If not we can put links pythoncad.org and
http://morgul.no-ip.com/dokuwiki/doku.php on
http://pythoncad.sourceforge.net.

3. Youtube is what this user seems to have seen and which have brought
him to our project. So we can check
if we can publish the how to install video on Youtube.

4. I still have my wish of install_pythoncad.msi unfulfilled.

Since more and more people will visit this project once we are on
sourceforge we need to improve our
first impression.

Cheers
Yagnesh Desai

[Pythoncad-developer] Adverse comment in Ratings and Reviews

[Gertwin G. <ger...@gm...>]

Hi Yagnesh and others,

First I think while PythonCAD is alpha or beta don't install files
outside the users home directory.
Even if someone want to try a alpha or beta stage application it don't
want it to install files on its computer which he thinks may can do
harm to its computer.

I think when pythoncad is in alpha or beta stage no installation
should be necessary.
Just unpack the PythonCAD-DS1-R37.tar.gz and start a file from the bin
directory (which is provided in the .tar.gz).
The file from the bin directory adjust the necessary paths and starts
the application by executing the pythoncad.py file.

If there is an PythonCAD update the user can just delete the old one
and unpack the new one.

For osx (starting from R38) I will put all the dependencies in the
.tar.gz file (even libgtk and pygtk and maybe python) so no additional
installation is needed.
In that way I provide the same environment in which I tested PythonCAD
to the user, no differences in libgtk, python or 32/64 bits versions
versions.

Regards,
Gertwin