[Remind-Fans] wxRemind - new release

[Bruce Wang]

I'm sorry I have no experience packaging wxPython application in eggs, I've
forward your letter to  distutils-sig maillist, hope someone their would
help :)
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.distutils.devel/3440

On 5/20/06, Daniel Graham <daniel.graham at duke.edu> wrote:
>
> Bruce,
>
> Thanks for the suggestions and the links.  I had fooled around with
> distutils and nearly went crazy. My experience with setuptools and
> easy_install was much more pleasant. I've thus added setup.py to the
> package but left INSTALL so there are now three installation
> alternatives: './INSTALL', 'python setup.py' and 'easy_install
> wxRemind'. All are documented in the README and the home page at:
>
>     http://www.duke.edu/~dgraham/wxRemind
>
> I've also registered wxRemind at PyPI.
>
> Still, the "egg" is not all that I wished:
>
>     1) I could never get the dependencies to work right. Even though
>     wxPython 2.6.3.2 is registered, easy_install would complain
>     about not being able to satisfy wxPython>=2.6.1.  No problem
>     satifying Python>=2.3, on the other hand, but easy_install would
>     then identify 2.4 as 'better' and try to install that. I
>     ended up dropping both requirements.
>
>     2) It is still necessary to download FLOAT and WXREMINDRC since
>     I couldn't figure out a way to make them accessable in the egg.
>
> If you have suggestions about how to modify my setup.py to fix these
> problems or other suggestions, I would be most grateful.
>
> -Dan
>
> On 2006-05-19 11:51 +0800, Bruce Wang wrote:
> > wxRemind is great!
> > Would you mind package it as python eggs [1] (and register it at PyPI
> [2] of
> > course)
> > It will be much more easier for users to upgrade/install using python
> eggs
> >
> > [1] http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/PythonEggs
> > [2] http://www.python.org/pypi
> >
> > --
> > simple is good
> > http://brucewang.net
>
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