[Pythonmac-SIG] PackMan issues

[Bob Ippolito]

It's getting there!  This one works (w/ wxPython, 5-6 "bouncemarks" on  
my 1ghz pbg4) but:
	1) the executable is almost 29 megs! woah!  Doesn't even include  
Python itself :)
	2) it doesn't work w/o Jack's MacPython installed because you put  
#!/usr/local/bin/python in the bootstrap script
	3) Lots of messages like this in the Console:
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File  
"/Users/bob/Desktop/wxPackageManager.app/Contents/Resources/ 
wxPackageManager.py", line 498, in OnListClick
     self.lblVersion.SetLabel("Version: " + pkg.version())
TypeError: cannot concatenate 'str' and 'NoneType' objects
	4) "View Homepage" button is activated for the first entry, even  
though IDLE doesn't have a homepage associated.  Doesn't validate these  
controls until you change to another package.
	5) cmd-Q doesn't work
	6) visual bugs (probably wxWindows' fault)
		- "bullet" doesn't have transparent background, so it has a white  
square when highlighted
		- sometimes (about 1/2 the time) when scrolling down by keyboard the  
highlight only covers the bottom 3/4 or so of the item
		
-bob
	
On Nov 2, 2003, at 12:38 PM, Kevin Ollivier wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> First off, let me say thanks for all your help in testing this!
>
> The ImportError was a result of my trying (unsuccessfully) to fix the  
> error message Bob got. I thought it was a sys.path problem, but turns  
> out it wasn't. Bob, I figured out the reason for the error you're  
> getting - PyXML. Although none of the modules in wxPackMan nor PackMan  
> use it, since the xml package is used, some parts of PyXML are picked  
> up and included by bundlebuilder when doing semi/standalone.  
> Unfortunately, this seems to lead to confusion over the expat library  
> in the bundle - looks like PyXML has its own wrapper for expat? In any  
> case, when trying to load the packages from the plist file, I get  
> errors about no "parsers.expat".
>
> I resolved this for wxPM by putting "_xmlplus" in the list of  
> excludeModules. So one problem is solved here!
>
> However, there is another one now. ^_^; Even when building in  
> semi-standalone mode, sys.path is stripped down to only include  
> Contents/Resources in it. This means, of course, wxPM doesn't "see"  
> any system/user installed Python(s), and that becomes a big problem  
> for wxPM. For the moment, I have two (less than ideal) solutions:
>
> - Provide a package (not semi-standalone or standalone) with the  
> entire wxPython module manually copied in, which bloats the package to  
> 5.6 MB.
>
> - Provide an alternate package (also not semi-standalone or  
> standalone) for those with wxPython installed.
>
> I have gone ahead and done this and posted the packages to  
> http://www.theolliviers.com/python/wxpm/. I have tested the  
> wxPython-included package by renaming my wxPython package (and thus  
> making it 'disappear'), and it worked for me, but YMMV. (wxPython is  
> the only module I use which is not system-installed.)
>
> In the meantime, if anyone has a solution to the sys.path issue that  
> would work with semi-standalone, I would greatly appreciate it! Also,  
> as soon as I can get out a wxPython package for Apple Python for  
> Panther, I can make another bundle for that as well. =)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kevin
>
> On Nov 1, 2003, at 3:22 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote:
>
>>
>> On Nov 1, 2003, at 6:15 PM, Nicholas Riley wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 02:56:06PM -0800, Kevin Ollivier wrote:
>>>> I created a new package and uploaded it to the same place
>>>> (http://www.theolliviers.com/python/wxpm/) if anyone wants to give  
>>>> this
>>>> a shot. Hopefully now you can do more than just look at the  
>>>> screenshot!
>>>
>>> Still getting the same problem (no wxPython), unfortunately.  I see  
>>> it
>>> in Modules.zip but it must be that it's not ending up on the path.
>>>
>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>   File "Contents/Resources/wxPackageManager.py", line 32, in ?
>>>     from wxPython.wx import *
>>> ImportError: No module named wxPython.wx
>>
>> I put this at the top of wxPackageManager.py:
>> import sys, os
>> os.chdir(os.path.split(__file__)[0])
>> sys.path.append(os.path.realpath('Modules.zip'))
>>
>> The new traceback is:
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File  
>> "/Users/bob/download/wxPackageManager.app/Contents/Resources/ 
>> wxPackageManager.py", line 727, in ?
>>     app = MyApp(0)
>>   File  
>> "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/python2.3/ 
>> site-packages/wxPython/wx.py", line 1951, in __init__
>>   File  
>> "/Users/bob/download/wxPackageManager.app/Contents/Resources/ 
>> wxPackageManager.py", line 92, in OnInit
>>     self.frame = PackageManagerMain()
>>   File  
>> "/Users/bob/download/wxPackageManager.app/Contents/Resources/ 
>> wxPackageManager.py", line 219, in __init__
>>     self.LoadPackages()
>>   File  
>> "/Users/bob/download/wxPackageManager.app/Contents/Resources/ 
>> wxPackageManager.py", line 360, in LoadPackages
>>     packages = self.mypimp.packages
>> AttributeError: PimpInterface instance has no attribute 'packages'
>>
>> -bob
>>
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