[Remind-Fans] wxRemind - new GUI for remind

[Daniel Graham]

The moral support is much appreciated!  Still, in the spirit of
sweet compromise, I repackaged wxRemind with an included python
setup.py which, so far as I know, is the default, cross platform way
of installing python packages. All that's needed is to unpack the
tar.gz file and then at the command prompt (as root) to enter:

# python setup.py install

Dependencies are checked for automatically (like an rpm) and files
are placed in system default locations. I'd love to hear how this
works on different systems from anyone who tries it. (I'm Centos 4.)

A side product of the python packaging is that an rpm spec file is
produced.  Both the package file, wxRemind-0.3.tar.gz, and the spec
file, wxRemind.spec, are at

    http://www.duke.edu/~dgraham/wxRemind

I produced an rpm file from this spec and it seemed to install fine,
but left the critical directories readable only by root.  Thus
nothing worked until a chmod -R +X * fixed the permissions.  I spent
a lot of time trying to figure out how to modify the configuration
to fix this but failed.

I hope that no one is going to ask for a Russian version. :-)

-Dan

On 2006-05-08 21:05 -0400, S. William Schulz wrote:
> On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 01:29:25AM +0200, Martin Stubenschrott wrote:
> > On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 12:44:22AM +0200, Guido Arnold wrote:
> > > How about a Debian package? ;)
> > 
> > and a gentoo ebuild ;)
> > 
> > No seriously, I think it should be enough for a developer to release a
> > tar.gz, all other packages (be it rpm, deb or .ebuild) should be up to
> > the distribution so that the dev can concentrate on writing code and not
> > on packaging it.
> 
> Amen.  I would much rather he concentrate on the features of the
> application, and let those so inclined package it for their particular
> distribution if they so desire, especially if he is developing it on a
> system which is not rpm based.
> 
> S 
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