Re: [Visualpython-users] Seg Fault if using control-field and a box in a scene

[Guy K. K. <guy...@au...>]

Hi Steve,

On 22/01/13 13:31, Steve Spicklemire wrote:
> That is the ultimate idea when things settle down...  I was
> thinking that we needed to get some more input from testers before
> putting anything on pypi, but I've never actually released anything
> there, so I'm not certain of the exact protocol. Is it not
> expected that most of the packages there are stable releases?

Not necessarily. You're adding "Categories" to each entry, which consist
of key-value pairs. One of these categories is "Development Status",
which you can just declare to be "Alpha" or "Beta". Here's a link of one
of my projects that's in alpha to show what I mean:

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/matanui

> The
> other issue is our dependency on wxPython 2.9.4. Even the wxPython
> folks don't have binary releases yet, and the package managers
> (that I've seen) are still on 2.8.x.

That is certainly a problem for a fully automated process. However, I
think a bit of documentation on the PyPI entry goes a long way in
explaining that. However, you can put a dependency into the meta-data of
setup.py, which declares that as well. I can see that there's also a
2.9.x wxPython in PyPI, so it can also be pip installed *automatically*
when installing wxVisual through pip.

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/wxPython/2.9.1.1

Maybe that requires first installing the native 2.9.x wx widgets, but as
I said, a bit of documentation ...

> If I'm wrong, I think it's a great idea!

Go for it. I'd be keen to see it this way. It would open up a whole
different population of users. Additionally, the setup.py provided
meta-data can also be very useful for package maintainers of
distribution packages. Talking about distro packages: with stdeb, one
can also retrieve PyPI packages, have them automatically rolled into a
.deb package and installed, keeping the package management nice and
clean ...

Guy

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