Re: [Gnumed-devel] packaging help needed

[Jim Busser]

On 29-Aug-09, at 1:48 AM, Gour wrote:

> as well as to have the exact list of deps which has to be
> fulfilled.

This is rather good timing because I have been considering the same  
thing. Below is what I found available from which perhaps designations  
of minimums and maximums and preferred made.

Looking at the binaries, mx and psycopg2 go up to python 2.6, so does  
PIL, but only for Linux and Win (PIL binaries for Mac going only up to  
2.5). Twainmodule (relevant to WIndows) goes only up to 2.5.

Do we know whether the GNUmed client and server will run under Python  
2.6 or if the code would need refactoring? If it runs under 2.6 (given  
2.6 is current production python) should it Python 2.6 and associated  
packages that are recommended? Might the wx which corresponds to  
Python 2.6 ease any of our problems? Does python 2.4.6 remain (for  
now) acceptable?

Python
=====
http://www.python.org/download/releases/
This is a list of the standard releases, both source and Windows  
installers. Consider your needs carefully before using a version other  
than the current production version. The current production versions  
are 2.6.2 and 3.1.1.

        • Python 3.1.1 (August 16, 2009)
        • Python 3.0.1 (February 13, 2009)
        • Python 2.6.2 (April 14, 2009)
	• Python 2.5.4 (December 23, 2008) <-- Mac OS 10.5.x Leopard being  
natively 2.5.1
        • Python 2.4.6 (December 19, 2008)

**********************************************
3rd party python modules *Package index*:
        see http://pypi.python.org/pypi/
***********************************************

wxPython
========
http://sourceforge.net/projects/wxpython/files/wxPython/
- available: 2.4.2.4 through 2.8.10.1
  … under 2.8.10.1 are listed:
        (Mac): 2.8.10.1 (unicode) available for each of Python 2.4 2.5 2.6
        (Win32): 2.8.10.1 (unicode) available for each of Python 2.4 2.5 2.6
        (Win64): 2.8.10.1 (unicode) available for each of Python 2.5 2.6
        wxPython-src-2.8.10.1.tar.bz2
        wxPython2.8-2.8.10.1-1.src.rpm

Egenix mxdateTime (supplied as part of mxBase)
======================================
http://www.egenix.com/products/python/mxBase/
alt (Mac) http://pythonmac.org/packages/ (but seems outdated)

- available for Pythons 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6
- each version available in narrow (UCS2) or wide (UCS4) Unicode builds
- Mac OS appears to require UCS2
- Despite that "Most Unixes ship with wide Python builds these days  
(including RedHat and SuSE), make sure, by running the following  
command which will tell you what kind of Python installation you have:
        python -c "import sys;print(sys.maxunicode<66000)and'UCS2'or'UCS4'"
... encountering errors (when trying to load an extension from the  
distribution) such as "unresolved symbol  
PyUnicodeUCS2_AsEncodedString" suggests a mismatched installation

Psycopg2
========
http://initd.org/pub/software/psycopg/
- lists only
        psycopg2-2.0.11.tar.gz
        psycopg2-2.0.12.tar.gz
- alt (Mac) http://pythonmac.org/packages/py24-fat/mpkg/
        lists: psycopg2-2.0.2-py2.4-macosx10.4.zip
- alt (Mac) http://pythonmac.org/packages/py25-fat/mpkg/
        lists: psycopg2-2.0.5.1-py2.5-macosx10.4.zip
- alt (Mac) http://darwinports.com/
        provides;
          py25-psycopg2 @2.0.9
          py26-psycopg2 @2.0.11
        see also wiki http://wiki.gnumed.de/bin/view/Gnumed/MacPorts

PIL (Python Imaging Library)
=======================
http://effbot.org/zone/pil-index.htm
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/PIL/1.1.6
http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/

Prebuilt versions of PIL are available in most Linux package  
repositories

Source:
        Imaging-1.1.7b1.tar.gz
Binaries:
        PIL-1.1.7b1.win32-py2.6.exe [708k] [python 2.6]
        PIL-1.1.7b1.win32-py2.5.exe [694k] [python 2.5]
        PIL-1.1.7a2.win32-py2.6.exe [627k] [python 2.6]
        PIL-1.1.7a2.win32-py2.5.exe [613k] [python 2.5]
        PIL-1.1.7a2.win32-py2.4.exe [612k] [python 2.4]
        PIL-1.1.7a2-py2.5-macosx10.5.mpkg.zip [1191k]
        PIL-1.1.6.win32-py2.6.exe [562k] [python 2.6]
        PIL-1.1.6.win32-py2.5.exe [548k] [python 2.5]
        PIL-1.1.6.win32-py2.4.exe [547k] [python 2.4]

Notes:
        Installation tips for Mac OS X Python
        
http://www.p16blog.com/p16/2008/05/appengine-installing-pil-on-os-x-1053.html
        A hiccup with PIL under Leopard has been described here
        
http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/12/pil_on_leopard_or_how_i_made_p.html

Twain/SANE
==========
http://sourceforge.net/projects/twainmodule/
        The Python Twain Module provide an interface to the Microsoft
        Windows TWAIN sub-system. The module implements the full
        TWAIN functionality and supports source specific extensions.
        A TWAIN-explorer is also included.

        http://sourceforge.net/projects/twainmodule/files/
        1.0.3 for Python 2.5
http://twainmodule.sourceforge.net:
        The Python TWAIN module supports 32bit Windows
        only. It does not run on Apple Computer Platforms
        or on UNIX based Platforms. Python versions 2.1
        through 2.5 are supported.


Postgres
======
postgres.org
- 8.4 if creating a new production databases
- else 8.3 is fine bewaring a bug when updating databases to 8.4