setup.py fails to build

[Marco Clocchiatti]

I' tryng to make a gentoo ebuild for whyteboard program, to add at wiidea overlay (if you like).
here a (unofficial) proposal for my project : http://www.wiild.it/

I've problems to use setup.py from bazar, at this address:
EBZR_REPO_URI="http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~sproaty/whyteboard/development"

this is the bad behaviour:

>>> Unpacking source...
 * bzr update start -->
 * repository: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~sproaty/whyteboard/development
Tree is up to date at revision 337 of branch http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~sproaty/whyteboard/development
 * exporting ...
>>> Source unpacked in /var/tmp/portage/x11-apps/whyteboard-9999/work
>>> Preparing source in /var/tmp/portage/x11-apps/whyteboard-9999/work/whyteboard-9999 ...
>>> Source prepared.
>>> Configuring source in /var/tmp/portage/x11-apps/whyteboard-9999/work/whyteboard-9999 ...
>>> Source configured.
>>> Compiling source in /var/tmp/portage/x11-apps/whyteboard-9999/work/whyteboard-9999 ...
python2.6 setup.py build
/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/wx-2.8-gtk2-unicode/wx/_core.py:14490: UserWarning: wxPython/wxWidgets release number mismatch
  warnings.warn("wxPython/wxWidgets release number mismatch")
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "setup.py", line 4, in <module>
    from whyteboard import meta
  File "/var/tmp/portage/x11-apps/whyteboard-9999/work/whyteboard-9999/whyteboard/__init__.py", line 4, in <module>
    from whyteboard.gui import WhyteboardApp
  File "/var/tmp/portage/x11-apps/whyteboard-9999/work/whyteboard-9999/whyteboard/gui/__init__.py", line 6, in <module>
    from sheets import UndoSheetManager
ImportError: No module named sheets
 * ERROR: x11-apps/whyteboard-9999 failed:

[Steven Sproat (sproaty)]

whoops, my bad. I added a few files to my Bazaar version control system that had a few errors (no module..)

I'll fix this tonight.

However, the files in Bazaar's "trunk" repository are from the in-development version, which is not suitable for release, yet. If you would like to create the package, you can use the files from the latest version, which is 0.40.1 -- http://whyteboard.googlecode.com/files/whyteboard-0.40.1.tar.gz

[Steven Sproat (sproaty)]

you can fix it temporarily by removing "from sheets import UndoSheetsManager" in __init__.py in /whyteboard/gui

[Marco Clocchiatti (cloc3)]

Thanks.

I'm working both around whyteboard-9999.ebuild and whyteboard-0.40.1.ebuild.

whyteboard-0.40.1.tar.gz does not contain any setup.py file.
so I'm currently extracting files from http://whyteboard.googlecode.com/files/whyteboard-0.40.1.deb
and coping them in the system.

I don't know if this is good, because it makes not easy to put files in the default gentoo path, which is /usr/lib/python<ver>/ .

[Steven Sproat (sproaty)]

shouldn't be too hard to come up with a setup based on 0.40.1's structure - it isn't as well packaged as the program is now.
This should do it, actually. The manifest doesn't need to change.

Let me know how it goes.

---

#!/usr/bin/env python

from distutils.core import setup
from whyteboard import meta

text = """
===========
Whyteboard
===========

Whyteboard is a free painting application for Linux, Windows and Mac. It is
suited towards creating visual presentations and for overlaying PDF images
with annotations

Features
=========

* Draw on a canvas using common tools: pen, rectangle, circle, text
* Annotate over PDF files
* Drawn shapes can be resized, moved, rotated and re-coloured
* Tabbed drawing: each tab represents a whiteboard "sheet". Each sheet has unlimited undo/redo operations
* Your drawing history can be replayed on a per-sheet basis
* Each sheet has a thumbnail of the canvas that updates as you draw
* Closed sheets can be re-opened, restoring their data
* Notes, similar to Post-It Notes. A tree in a side panel gives an overview of all notes
* Resize the canvas easily by dragging it around
* Embed an audio/video player onto the canvas
* Translated into many languages (French, German, Spanish, Italian, Galician, Russian, Dutch, and more)
"""

setup(
    name = 'Whyteboard',
    version = meta.version,
    author = 'Steven Sproat',
    author_email = '<email address hidden>',
    url = 'http://whyteboard.org',
    license = 'GPL v3',
    description = 'A simple drawing program that can be used to annotate PDF files',
    long_description = text,

    package_dir = {'whyteboard': 'whyteboard',
                   'whyteboard.lib': 'whyteboard/lib',},

    packages = ['whyteboard', 'whyteboard.lib'],
    py_modules = ['whyteboard'],
    scripts = ['whyteboard.py'],

    classifiers=[
          'Development Status :: 4 - Beta',
          'Environment :: MacOS X',
          'Environment :: Win32 (MS Windows)',
          'Environment :: X11 Applications',
          'Intended Audience :: End Users/Desktop',
          'Intended Audience :: Education',
          'License :: OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)',
          'Natural Language :: Arabic',
          'Natural Language :: Chinese (Traditional)',
          'Natural Language :: Czech',
          'Natural Language :: Dutch',
          'Natural Language :: French',
          'Natural Language :: German',
          'Natural Language :: Hindi',
          'Natural Language :: Italian',
          'Natural Language :: Japanese',
          'Natural Language :: Portuguese',
          'Natural Language :: Russian',
          'Natural Language :: Spanish',
          'Operating System :: OS Independent',
          'Programming Language :: Python',
          'Programming Language :: Python :: 2.5',
          'Programming Language :: Python :: 2.6',
          'Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7',
          'Topic :: Multimedia',
          'Topic :: Multimedia :: Graphics',
          'Topic :: Multimedia :: Graphics :: Editors',
          'Topic :: Multimedia :: Graphics :: Editors :: Raster-Based',
          'Topic :: Multimedia :: Graphics :: Presentation',
          'Topic ...

[Steven Sproat (sproaty)]

I've also committed a fix for the broken setup script in trunk - still a few things I'd like to release but I need to test it more.

You're Italian, right? If you use any "non-English" characters in your directory, like á etc, can you test saving the program. Also if you were previously getting OSErrors when saving files, do you mind seeing if that fixes anything?

I just need to test more stuff on Windows before I release. Feedback on what's still broken and what's fixed would be appreciated if you have the time.

Best regards,
Steven

[Marco Clocchiatti (cloc3)]

I've no problems with italian characters, nor wrinting inside the whiteboard, nor using them in the save path:

cloc3@s939 ~ $ echo $LC_ALL && ls sòlòlèttéréìtalìanè.wtbd
it_IT.UTF-8
sòlòlèttéréìtalìanè.wtbd

 curl -v -d http://www.cloc3.net/ardesia/sòlòlèttéréìtalìanè.wtbd http://www.cloc3.net/ardesia/sòlòlèttéréìtalìanè.wtbd >sòlòlèttéréìtalìanè.wtbd

:)

[Marco Clocchiatti (cloc3)]

using your setup.py, all the ebuild code reduces to:

src_prepare () {
 cp ${FILESDIR}/setup.py .
}

if you insert setup.py in tarball, also the src_prepare section may it be avoided.

just a little issue.
the script /usr/bin/whyteboard.py should be substituted with a symlink to /usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/whyteboard.py

with this manual adjustment, an error occurs on startup, related to pubsub:

cloc3@s939 /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages $ whyteboard.py
/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/wx-2.8-gtk2-unicode/wx/_core.py:14490: UserWarning: wxPython/wxWidgets release number mismatch
  warnings.warn("wxPython/wxWidgets release number mismatch")
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/whyteboard.py", line 50, in <module>
    from whyteboard.gui import WhyteboardApp
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/whyteboard/gui.py", line 45, in <module>
    from lib.pubsub import pub
ImportError: No module named pubsub

in my system, a file pubsub.py exists in wxpython:
s939 whyteboard # qfile pubsub.py
dev-python/wxpython (/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/wx-2.8-gtk2-unicode/wx/lib/pubsub.py)
dev-python/wxpython (/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/wx-2.8-gtk2-unicode/wxPython/lib/pubsub.py)

but the program seems unable to find it.

[Steven Sproat (sproaty)]

just a little issue.
the script /usr/bin/whyteboard.py should be substituted with a symlink to /usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/whyteboard.py

yes, that's something I do in my Debian package installer.

re: pubsub, you may have to specify it in the setup.py package list.

                   'whyteboard.lib.pubsub': 'whyteboard/lib/pubsub',
                   'whyteboard.lib.pubsub.core': 'whyteboard/lib/pubsub/core',
                   'whyteboard.lib.pubsub.utils': 'whyteboard/lib/pubsub/utils',

I'm not using the one from wxPython.

[Marco Clocchiatti (cloc3)]

ok.

now I have a working gentoo ebuild for whyteboard-0.40.1.

just two exthetical problems:

1. whyteboard needs the folder images.
    I've trained the ebuild to copy it by hands.
    so the program works, but the gentoo path for whyteboard images looks bad, because it is
/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/images. if any new packages should do the same, may it be impossible to mantain the system. for example, if a second python packages needs an icon named /usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/images/icons/cursor.png, the package should fail to build to avoid file-conflicts.

2. I don't understand way, but the symlink in /usr/bin does not work, but needs to substituted with a bash script such this:

#!/bin/bash
python /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/whyteboard.py

[Steven Sproat (sproaty)]

okay. I haven't 100% finished the setup stuff - I played with it for a while, but it's not totally working.

With my Debian packages, I run a custom set of commands to copy the program to /usr/lib/whyteboard, which is where the program expects its image resource to live if the program is launched from the /usr/bin symlink.
That's something I should fix I guess by trying to follow through the symlink.

I'll have the setup stuff sorted by the time 0.41 is released.

[Marco Clocchiatti (cloc3)]

Well, I'm having a look here: http://docs.python.org/py3k/distutils/setupscript.html#installing-package-data
because I'm not an expert programmer.
In my opinion, distutils have some limit in installing data files, because is not possibile to move a directory tree, but only a list of simple files. so, any attemp to move images dir, with all subdirecories fails for me.

anyway, I think is not important to do this with setup.py, with a cp command or with a makefile. the only thing to have care should be the path of images dir, to be moved inside whyteboard dir,

I've tested this little change in a few files, and it seems working:
 path = os.path.join(self.gui.util.get_path(), "whyteboard/images", "whyteboard/icons", "")

[Marco Clocchiatti (cloc3)]

a copy of my gentoo ebuild for whyteboard-0.40.1 is available here:

http://www.cloc3.net/wiidea/whyteboard-0.40.1.tar.bz2
cloc3@s939 ~/overlays $ md5sum whyteboard.tar.bz2
8eac99b839ca8c1f60befd0387e5315e whyteboard.tar.bz2

please have a look to dependencies and to files/* .

[Steven Sproat (sproaty)]

yeah the images should be moved into the whyteboard folder.

The proper fix would be to make get_path() return the correct path all the time rather than modifying every file that calls that function.

That file gave me a 404 error.

[Steven Sproat (sproaty)]

I've just committed a fix to get_path() that will follow through symbolic links to resolve where the application is installed to. So a file "whyteboard" in /usr/bin that's a symbolic link to /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/whyteboard will attempt to load all the image files from the /usr/lib... directory.

I have 2 days off work now to try and get a new release out. There aren't many things to fix now, and with a fixed setup script in place it should be easier for you to build whyteboard via "python setup.py install"

I can also get the program up on Pypi, then.

regards,
Steve

[Marco Clocchiatti (cloc3)]

sorry for long delay.

a gentoo ebuild is now inserted in this overlay:
http://www.cloc3.net/wiidea/wiidea.tar.bz2
http://www.cloc3.net/wiidea/wiidea.tar.bz2.sha1

no more setup.sh seem needed in last version.

links seems working today :) .
tank's a lot.

[Steven Sproat (sproaty)]

Cool, can this bug now be considered fixed?

So there's a working gentoo build for Whyteboard -- is there any way to somehow get this into the official distribution somehow? Would be interesting and also very cool :D

[Marco Clocchiatti (cloc3)]

fixed? may it be.

wiidea is my first overlay, and I don't know if it is well written.
anyway, this is may gentoo bug:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=334809

may it be usefull to up developers, because I thing they are completly forgetting of mine :) ...

[Marco Clocchiatti (cloc3)]

because of bug #678114, I've built a new source package for whyteboard.
this is the location:

http://www.cloc3.net/wiidea/whyteboard-0.41.1.tar.gz

cloc3@s939 ~/overlays $ sha1sum whyteboard-0.41.1.tar.gz
08f09952243055094406343b6f88d7b5762fa1bf whyteboard-0.41.1.tar.gz