Blair Zajac wrote: > We have a large number of PyQt apps on Linux for a special effect > studio. We use PyQt apps to manage a large render farm for special > effects, examining artwork, playing back renders at high resolutions, > and other apps for lighting and compositing, etc. > > More of our users are using Mac's and want the same tools on their Mac > desktops, so we're starting to build the infrastructure to support them. > > Currently I'm using MacPorts since it provides a framework Python and Qt > for Mac. However, I'm finding the distribution of MacPorts packages to > other hosts painful because it puts files in other places besides > /opt/local and there is no easy way to dist out new packages to systems. > My current solution to disting out new packages to clients is ugly: > deactivate all ports so that everything only lives in /opt/local, rsync > any changes into /opt/local, then reactivate the ports. Painful and > during the upgrade, nothing that relies upon /opt/local will work. > > I could do this better, but in the end, the package management isn't as > nice as dpkg and apt-get. > > So I want to use switch to Fink for apt-get and use an entire Fink tree. > However, Python is not a Framework build. We can't use a X11 build > since the performance for playback of renders is not good enough and the > users are artists, not developers who would mind using X11. We need the > native playback speed at 24 frames per second. > > Reading some of the other comments on framework Python in the mailing > list, one comment was that .apps and frameworks are meant to be > relocatable. I'm not interested in building applications where we can > just relocate the entire Python tree. We have a complicated set of > Python modules with our own versioning system, so my vision is that > /sw/bin/aqua-python will always be provided and all our custom module > will live in a known location. Any applications can have their > Contents/MacOS/Appname be a shell script that just execs the framework > python. > > I should also mention that all our Python code is written to Python 2.4, > so we can't use the system's 2.3 Python. Also with 2.5 out, we'd like > to move to that for the increased performance. > > So several questions: > > 1) Would the Python maintainers be willing to take patches for a > framework install? > > 2) Should this be done on the original python2?.info, or a separate > Python package be built, maybe that just installs the files that are new > on top of the python2?.info file. Ideally, the Framework install would > leverage the non-Framework install. > > 3) Would it be possible to add the --enable-frameworks to the build? I > presume this will break everything, otherwise it would have been done? > Could we add symlinks from the framework build back to the non-framework > build to support this? > > Any suggestions would help. I would like to see Fink grow the ability > to run Aqua PyQt or PyWxWidgets apps. > > Regards, > Blair > > Blair: Speaking as the fink python maintainer, ff the fink python package could be converted to a framework install without too much breakage, I'm all for that. I haven't thought about all the issues, but I think it's worth exploring.
One that occurs to me right off the bat is what do we do with the Tkinter module - keep using the X11 version, use the aqua version, or try to have both? -Jeff -- Jeffrey S. Whitaker Phone : (303)497-6313 Meteorologist FAX : (303)497-6449 NOAA/OAR/PSD R/PSD1 Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] 325 Broadway Office : Skaggs Research Cntr 1D-124 Boulder, CO, USA 80303-3328 Web : http://tinyurl.com/5telg ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
