This is my current setup.py script. It works okay, but it installs tvnamer.py (the tool) as "tvnamer.py" into site-packages or somewhere similar.. Can I make setup.py install tvnamer.py as tvnamer, and/or is there a better way of installing command-line applications? ...
People, We have 4 or 5 utilities that work in conjunction with our application. These utilities are either .bat files, or VB apps, PowerBuilder, etc. I am trying to manage these utils in source control, and am trying to figure out a better way to assign versions to them. Right now, the developers use the version control's meta-data -- s...
Hi all, OK a real question - I'd like to add the ability for users of a system I developed to make package a set of changes together so that they can deploy their package of changes to an acceptance testing environment, do their testing, and then at a later point (if testing was successful) deploy that package of changes to a live envir...
Hi all I'm creating an automated installation of Office 2007. To customise your Office 2007 installation the Office Customization Tool (OCT) does most of the work for you. One the OCT's features is the ability to run additional programs during the Office installation. However it is pretty poor at it. Fortunately by editing the app...
I've read some about .egg files and I've noticed them in my lib directory but what are the advantages/disadvantages of using then as a developer? ...
I need to package my python application, its dependencies and python into a single MSI installer. The end result should desirably be: Python is installed in the standard location the package and its dependencies are installed in a separate directory (possibly site-packages) the installation directory should contain the python uncompres...
What is the web interface tool that Debian or Ubuntu use for publicizing their custom repositories on the web? Like packages.debian.org Is such tool open sourced, so that it could be re-used for a custom repository? ...
I thought I heard that py2exe was able to do this, but I never figured it out. Has anyone successfully done this? Can I see your setup.py file, and what command line options you used? Basically I'm thinking of it giving me a single executable file that does something like unzips itself to maybe /temp and runs. ...
I want to create a mac osx application from python package and then put it in a disk image. Because I load some resources out of the package, the package should not reside in a zip file. The resulting disk image should display the background picture to "drag here -> applications" for installation. ...
I have the source of a program (taken from cvs/svn/git/...) and I'd like to build a Debian/Ubuntu package for it. The package is present in the repositories, but: It is an older version (lacking features I need) I need slightly different compile options than the default. What is the easiest way of doing it? I am concerned about a cou...
I've got an iPhone app with icon file Icon.png. This icon shows up properly when the app is on the phone itself, but it doesn't show up in the applications pane in iTunes. What do I need to do to get it to show up properly? ...
I am starting my first independent for profit venture. I am having a hard time deciding what language to use. I want to write my app in Perl, but I don't think it will be simple enough to compile. If I don't write it in Perl I will write it in C++. The application will have many features, including wxwidgets interface, Deal with SDL, ti...
As a matter of fact you have smth like /java/src and /java/test. But then, how do you name packages/classes the unittests go to? The same as classes they are written against? And when refactoring comes, do you manually rename in /test? Please share your experience. ...
So from what little I understand about packaging for Macs, I see that the actual program that launches is the one defined under the CFBundleExecutable key in Info.plist. <key>CFBundleExecutable</key> <string>JavaApplicationStub</string> Now, my app doesnt work if /APP/Content/MacOS/JavaApplicationStub is not chmodded +x (It just fails...
We altready have a similar question here but the discussion do not cover all the aspect, so I'm asking again: What is the best way to distribute a .Net application considering build mode (release vs. debug) and distribution of PDB files? Having a good reference to an article covering these aspects would be great. Consider also the dist...
I want to create an MSI installer containing three apps. I will be releasing frequent updates to each app as I work through the list of feature requests and do bug fixes. The three apps are currently at versions 1.6.3, 1.6.12 and 1.8.1 respectively. I was wondering what you guys can recommend for the version of the package. Should I: ...
At what point would you create your own exception class vs. using java.lang.Exception? (All the time? Only if it will be used outside the package? Only if it must contain advanced logic? etc...) ...
We're in the process of packaging combinations of our products/modules. Some of them are stand-alone some are interdependent. All versions must be deployable side-by-side. As it is we're considering two choices: One MSI per package and version One MSI per product/module and version The first alternative would mean that combinations o...
Hi I have a few Munin plugins which report stats from an Autonomy database. They all use a small library which scrapes the XML status output for the relevant numbers. I'm trying to bundle the library and plugins into a Puppet-installable RPM. The actual RPM-building should be straightforward; once I have a distutils-produced distfile I...
I'm talking about testing a package that you're building, especially one that spawns a daemon and/or fiddles with init.d. Do you log into some sort of chroot? Do you create a virtualized distribution and tear it down? How do you test your runtime dependencies and test suite without fouling up your dev machine for the next time you run y...