From: lcc
<lcc@...>
To: gramps devel <gramps-devel@...>; Aaron R. Short <fuzzyfonzy@...>
Sent: Monday, April 6, 2009 10:37:03 AM
Subject: Re: [Gramps-devel] Fw: [Gramps-windows] alpha binary and new windows sourceforge project.
OK, there's a wiki... that's nice. But is it really meant to be password
protected? I've been wondering that for a while since I read the original
announcement. It's kind of weird to announce a project page people can't
access.
-lcc
On Mon, 04/06/2009 at 2:09pm, "Aaron R. Short" wrote:
> to keep everyone in the loop.
> ----- Forwarded Message ----
> From: Stephen George
> To: Aaron R. Short
> Sent: Monday, April 6, 2009 5:01:44 AM
> Subject: Re: [Gramps-windows] alpha binary and new windows sourceforge
> project.
> Hi Aaron,
> I think you should also make this announcement on gramps-dev, I know mostly
> they are interested in linux only, but they should at least know of
> gramps4win existence.
> Steve
> Aaron R. Short wrote:
>> I'd like to announce the start of the GRAMPS for Windows sourceforge
>>
project.
>> http://apps.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/gramps4win/index.php?title=Main_Page>> It's purpose is to help us windows developers coordinate and develop solid
>> windows solutions. I'm sure I'm forgetting to document some details but I
>> think I did an OK job of getting it started and documenting where I hope to
>> go with it.
>> The first alpha of a binary install has been released. It uses py2exe to
>> compile and bundle gramps with all it's dependencies! Nothing else to
>> install just gramps!
>> From the wiki:
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> -
>> gramps-3.1.1-4win-0.1-bin-install.exe is a hack. It is only intended as a
>> developer
alpha and not meant for even user testing. It does compile and
>> run but at the moment is little better than a proof of concept. It does not
>> require any other dependencies. I was able to build it, install it on my
>> laptop and run it. All I did was create a tree and add a couple of people
>> but it did run. If you choose to try it out note that it will install to c:\
>> Program Files\gramps-3.1.1-4win-0.1 without any prompting so be sure you
>> don't have anything in that directory! Also note that it does not yet use
>> it's own settings directory and still uses the default directory.
>> Known issues include:
>> * Exporting - some exports don't show up. Probably some of their
>> dependencies didn't get compiled for some reason. At least that
>> was the case for csv.
>> * When closing GRAMPS a message will pop up to check
the log. When
>> you do it will tell you the spell checker isn't installed.
>> * For some reason there appear to be some python modules not being
>> picked up by py2exe's import crawler, were working on it but who
>> knows what might be missing.
>> --Fuzzyfonzy <
https://apps.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/gramps4win/index.php?
>> title=User:Fuzzyfonzy&action=edit&redlink=1> 00:31, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> -
>> I'd like to invite any one who wants to get involved in the development to
>> send me an email with your sourceforge account name and I'll add you as a
>> developer to the project. One area that I know some people here have
>> experience in is NSIS
so helping with the installers would be a great help.
>> --AaronS
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