On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 11:43 PM, Matti Airas <[email protected]> wrote:
> If they're out of scope of Sivan's initiative, they still could (and
> should) be documented elsewhere. Again, we have a basic set of
> examples at [1] but more verbose examples would be very useful.

Given that, since pyside is not only desktop oriented I think it is
only natural that I try to include some tutorial steps about using
Mobility for MeeGo on platforms have the hardware necessary to support
Mobility, and tutor about using the multimedia aspects of it if they
are applicable to desktops and can be installed on other non
handset/tablet python enabled platforms, e.g. Windows and non MeeGo
Linux distros.

>
> [1] http://qt.gitorious.org/pyside/pyside-examples/trees/master/mobility
>
>> 2) I would like to see installation/setup instructions also for other
>> desktop platforms (mainly I am talking Windows and OS X here - yes, I
>> remember that the support for those platforms is not entirely there, but
>> still)
>
> Would be extremely useful, indeed. Carlos Goncalves has some OS X
> packages prepared but they aren't yet linked to the downloads page. I
> also remember having heard about fink packages - I wonder what their
> status is.

I will make sure to start testing the Windows packages and have a
write up of setting it up there and testing that the installation is
successful. (e.g. some scripts that import from all the supposedly
available modules?)

>
> On Windows side, there's just the experimental package. We're planning
> on improving that already in our next release (late this week or early
> next week, most likely), but since none of the core team members are
> Windows users, we're super-grateful of any assistance on that front
> too!

As said, I will commit to at least testing the Windows packages. We do
have a defined compliance test suite we can use to dub the
installation "successful" ?

>
>> 3) +1 for the packaging instructions
>
> That's a hairy one, though - or at least needs to be limited to
> specific platforms. If you're just interested on Maemo (or
> Debian-based Linux distributions), there are already some applicable
> packaging instructions available at [2]. Again, I agree we're doing a
> bad job linking to all available documentation.

Yes, from a very brief look at them they state the reqs and follow a
very snippet oriented approach which is good for seasoned developers,
however I will use this and my knowledge of setuptools to try an
provide a step by step with explanations instructions so new comers to
PySide will follow it and understand it at he same time. I will also
make sure to at least try and include packaging and delivery schemes
for Windows, since I don't owe an OS X machine I would require some
help on that :).


BR,

-Sivan
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