Re: [PythonCE] The State of Affairs

2008-07-31 Thread David Goncalves
Hi, Well... I believe that is the point of the conversation. In order to be able to install a CAB file someone has to create it first, and for the time being there is no way of creating a CAB file for a python project (I am not an expert, I may be wrong). You can create CAB files (differen

Re: [PythonCE] The State of Affairs

2008-07-30 Thread Lachezar Dobrev
Well... I believe that is the point of the conversation. In order to be able to install a CAB file someone has to create it first, and for the time being there is no way of creating a CAB file for a python project (I am not an expert, I may be wrong). 2008/7/30, Thomas Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [PythonCE] The State of Affairs

2008-07-30 Thread Thomas Heller
Lachezar Dobrev schrieb: > 2008/7/30 Thomas Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> ... >> BTW: How do you install a cab on a CE device? > 1. Download CAB using WLAN, WWAN, Bluetooth FTP, Bluetooth PAN, etc. > from the Web-Site, or a network share. > 2. Double-tap the cab file :) > > Works with Wind

Re: [PythonCE] The State of Affairs

2008-07-30 Thread Lachezar Dobrev
2008/7/30 Thomas Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > ... > BTW: How do you install a cab on a CE device? 1. Download CAB using WLAN, WWAN, Bluetooth FTP, Bluetooth PAN, etc. from the Web-Site, or a network share. 2. Double-tap the cab file :) Works with Windows CE 4, Windows CE 5, Windows CE Embe

Re: [PythonCE] The State of Affairs

2008-07-30 Thread Thomas Heller
Alexandre Delattre schrieb: > I was thinking that a first step to enhance distribution of PythonCE > apps, would be to be able to create easily .cab for them. > > .cab are installable over the air, as well by cross installing from > desktop. > > If I met enough positive feedback, I'll start tryin

Re: [PythonCE] The State of Affairs

2008-07-28 Thread John Hampton
Alexandre Delattre wrote: I was thinking that a first step to enhance distribution of PythonCE apps, would be to be able to create easily .cab for them. .cab are installable over the air, as well by cross installing from desktop. If I met enough positive feedback, I'll start trying to implemen

Re: [PythonCE] The State of Affairs

2008-07-20 Thread Alexandre Delattre
Please ignore my previous message, I hit the "Send" button accidentaly. I was thinking that a first step to enhance distribution of PythonCE apps, would be to be able to create easily .cab for them. .cab are installable over the air, as well by cross installing from desktop. If I met enough pos

Re: [PythonCE] The State of Affairs

2008-07-20 Thread Alexandre Delattre
Hi all, After a bit of thinking, I wonder___ PythonCE mailing list PythonCE@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonce

Re: [PythonCE] The State of Affairs

2008-07-16 Thread Ulrich Eckhardt
On Tuesday 15 July 2008, Brad Clements wrote: > I tried some years back to integrate the CE changes into Python trunk. > However there were too many changes spread all over the place. It was > hard to get them reviewed. I know of some projects (Boost, STLport) where the biggest batch of changes w

Re: [PythonCE] The State of Affairs

2008-07-15 Thread Christopher Fairbairn
Hi, On Wed 16/07/08 09:15 , Brad Clements [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent: > Plus some things about CE were just too difficult to workaround, > requiring lots of C macros that weren't not appealing to core developers: Over the last year and a half or so I have been inspired occassionally to look into cle

Re: [PythonCE] The State of Affairs

2008-07-15 Thread Brad Clements
Ulrich Eckhardt wrote: I have another question concerning the state of affairs though: why is the CE port a separate project? All other ports to various operating systems seem to be one project while the CE port is run separately. This is bad because it requires additional manpower for syncin

Re: [PythonCE] The State of Affairs

2008-07-15 Thread Ulrich Eckhardt
On Thursday 10 July 2008, Alexandre Delattre wrote: > Chris, > > > Also, if we are to encourage developers to build solutions that will > > work on the PDA, I think distribution is a problem. The environment is > > workable as a hacker, but if we want to simply the deployment and > > actually ship

Re: [PythonCE] The State of Affairs

2008-07-11 Thread alexandre . delattre
When I was working on PythonCE years ago I had the same concerns. I am wondering if Python eggs, easyinstall and setuptools could be put to use for this. Rather than starting from scratch. I think easyinstall at least gets you the dependency checking, downloading (non-graphical) and instal

Re: [PythonCE] The State of Affairs

2008-07-10 Thread Brad Clements
Alexandre Delattre wrote: What I really like to start implementing is a web-based approach of programs distribution, a bit like apt-get on debian linux (with a graphical frontend of course) or like the Installer.app on jailbreaked iphones. When I was working on PythonCE years ago I had the

Re: [PythonCE] The State of Affairs

2008-07-10 Thread Alexandre Delattre
Chris, Also, if we are to encourage developers to build solutions that will work on the PDA, I think distribution is a problem. The environment is workable as a hacker, but if we want to simply the deployment and actually ship applications, at this point it seems a bit complex. It would b

[PythonCE] The State of Affairs

2008-07-09 Thread Chris & Dawn Kunicki
First of all, its been really exciting to see all the traffic in this forum the last few days, it shows there is a lot of interest in PPC and Python. I am new to the Python world, I have been doing a .NET for years on the desktop and PPC and I am looking for a better cross- platform environm