FYI: Perica told me today that he's put his source for Portable Python up on GitHub: https://github.com/pericazivkovic/portablepython. I've not read all the code yet, but it looks pretty easy to use.
-Keegan On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 4:57 PM, Kai Willadsen <[email protected]>wrote: > On 8 June 2013 23:43, Keegan Witt <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> > > wrote: > >> > >> On 4 June 2013 10:36, Keegan Witt <[email protected]> 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 > > > > >
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