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

[Steve S. <st...@sp...>]

Ok! I'll give it a try.

thanks,
-steve

On Jan 21, 2013, at 8:19 PM, "Guy K. Kloss" <guy...@au...> wrote:

> 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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