The packing itself is (almost) a one liner with debhelper, I keep my own web2py installs in debs. Most of the 'official' packaging effort is adapting to some guidelines - like the used paths, startup-shutdown control, logging, dependencies, etc. Web2py, as it is now, is geared towards self-sufficiency, which is good, but it means a diff will have to be produced to make it more 'linuxy' to allow inclusion to mainstream repositories. I can do that for Debian, Ubuntu and Maemo - other folks will have to deal with RedHat, Fedora, SuSe, etc as I have no experience with those.
On Dec 3, 6:19 pm, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote: > If we had a script that does the packing I can work out the politics. > > On Dec 3, 10:42 am, AchipA <attila.cs...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > It's not the packaging that is difficult, it's the process of getting > > the package into a mainstream distribution. > > > On Dec 3, 5:09 pm, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote: > > > > It is a good idea. I need somebody to help and take the initiative. > > > > On Dec 3, 8:59 am, selecta <gr...@delarue-berlin.de> wrote: > > > > > with > > > > > sudo apt-get install web2py > > > > > ...sry for the incomplete post > > > > > On Dec 3, 3:58 pm, selecta <gr...@delarue-berlin.de> wrote: > > > > > > thinking about it it would be really nice to install web2py with > > > > > sudo apti > > > > > > On Dec 3, 3:40 pm, selecta <gr...@delarue-berlin.de> wrote: > > > > > > > one idea to make web2py a little bit more poplular is to find > > > > > > somebody > > > > > > to package it for debian/ubuntu > > > > > > should not be to hard since it has very moderate dependencies > > > > > > >https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackagingGuide/Python > > > > > > should help, but a pro should be better to get w2p packaged > > > > > > > I think we should bug some people on launchpad, like starting one of > > > > > > these "needs packaging" treads and make everybody here push it > > > > > > > On Dec 3, 8:05 am, Yarko Tymciurak <resultsinsoftw...@gmail.com> > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > On Dec 3, 12:53 am, Thadeus Burgess <thade...@thadeusb.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > +1 to more comments in code :) > > > > > > > > > Didn't some smart programmer guy write that at least 50%, if > > > > > > > > not more, of > > > > > > > > lines of code should be comments describing what the code does > > > > > > > > and WHY it > > > > > > > > does it ? > > > > > > > > Yeah - well, Python can be DENSE CODE, so all the more important > > > > > > > to > > > > > > > write in outline mode, and pick the right, and meaningful names > > > > > > > for > > > > > > > vars - then you can make self-documenting code, but outline of > > > > > > > intent > > > > > > > is still the most important thing... > > > > > > > > > -Thadeus > > > > > > > > > On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 12:46 AM, mdipierro > > > > > > > > <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Good occasion to thank all those who have provided > > > > > > > > > significant help > > > > > > > > > with docstrings. > > > > > > > > Indeed! Thanks! > > > > > > > > - Yarko -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To post to this group, send email to web...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en.
