[Remind-Fans] wxRemind - new GUI for remind

[Paul Smith]

On 5/9/06, Daniel Graham <daniel.graham at duke.edu> wrote:
> 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. :-)

I will not ask you for a Russian version.:-) Thanks, Dan! However, I
get the following error when I run (as root or as a normal user)
'python setup.py bdist_rpm':

RPM build errors:
    Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.99458 (%doc)
error: command 'rpmbuild' failed with exit status 1

Paul