Re: [Pythonsiphon-devel] features

[Thomas H. <tho...@io...>]

>    Hi, I would like to know what suggestions people on this list
> have for features to add to ciphon.  At this point I have some
> confidence in ciphon's ability to download and install modules on
> unix platforms using the standard install.  I'm not quite so confident
> about rpm installs.  I've received a patch from Gerhard H=E4ring that
> uses a temporary directory for downloading and building which I plan
> on incorporating.  I also think Thomas Heller has gotten ciphon 0.3.4
> working on windows.
>     Currently my todo list for ciphon is (in no particular order):
>
> some form of windows support
> better rpm support
> support for binary packages
> support for debian pkgs (not for a while unfortunately)
>

Suchandra,

1. I would mostly like some code/explanation/whatever about how
to submit a package to ciphon. I assume currently you submit
packages manually?

2. Windows support: I simply replaced most open(fname, "w") calls
with open(fname, "wb"). Windows always needs the 'b' flag for
binary files. Since I could not find a suitable tar.exe running on
windows, I took the first tarfile Python module I could find
(from Jason Pedrone, http://www.demonseed.net/~jp/code/tarfile.py)
and used it from ciphon.

3. How does ciphon use rpm's under linux? If I understand correctly,
you download the .tar.gz package, build an rpm from it, and then
install it? Maybe I should do something similar under windows (building
and then starting a bdist_wininst installer).

4. Support for binary packages is essential under Windows, because
a lot of people have no compiler. Additional catch: Extension modules
to run under windows must be compiled separately for each Python version!

Regards,

Thomas

PS: I have some problems reading your mails, Suchandra, because I always
see them as empty messages with attachments. I'm sure it's my fault becau=
se
I'm using outlook express... Someone has a tip for me?