Re: Meld 1.7.3 released

[Kai Willadsen <kai willadsen gmail com>]

On 8 June 2013 23:43, Keegan Witt <keeganwitt gmail com> wrote:
> I would like to get the source for Portable Python (that's been a long time
> request), but there's not too much of a worry in that you're not using
> closed-source binaries, it's just the source for the installer isn't open
> yet.  See the conversation here:
> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/portablepython/H6eygvoIepA/QQxcrWLgRYcJ.

Sure. This isn't a huge deal, it's just that without it we're shipping
stuff we can't rebuild from source, and so we really can't serve it
from gnome.org. In some golden future if we get to a stage where we
have a Windows build running from the repository (with *lots* of
external packages, obviously), then brilliant.

I don't know that I can do much, but if you have continuing issues
with installer hosting please bring it up! I don't want to see this
resource go away.

> I
> only looked very briefly at doing py2exe, it looked a bit complicated to get
> GTK working with it, though it's very possible this was because of my lack
> of Python knowledge.

Nope... I'm pretty sure it looked complicated because it's really
complicated! One of the huge downsides of using PyGTK is that we get
to ship GTK + sundry, PyGTK + sundry and, if we're really lucky,
Python + sundry. It's not simple. I had a stab at doing this on OSX a
while ago and got a working package, but could never recreate the
build environment with any success.

cheers,
Kai


> On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 4:15 PM, Kai Willadsen <kai willadsen gmail com>
> wrote:
> > On 4 June 2013 10:36, Keegan Witt <keeganwitt gmail com> wrote:
> > > I've uploaded a new installer for Windows:
> > > https://code.google.com/p/meld-installer/ for this release.  Note that
> > > sometime this year, I'll be moving this to SourceForge
> > > (https://sourceforge.net/projects/meldinstaller/) since Google Code has
> > > decided to axe downloads and GitHub had done the same even before I
> > > started
> > > this project.
> >
> > Yeah this is obviously turning out to be a run-around for you. If we
> > ever get to a point where the base portable-python thing is open
> > source then making an official Windows build and distributing via
> > gnome.org would be a useful goal. However, while there are
> > effectively-closed-source blobs in there that's not really an option.
> >
> > I also haven't looked into other packaging options on Windows to see
> > whether we can use something more vanilla like py2exe or similar.
> > Maybe someone else knows such things better than I?
> >
> > cheers,
> > Kai