On Tuesday 13 September 2011 01:20:06 Éric Araujo wrote:

Hi Mac,

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I was wondering if there is a way in distutils to

include/indicate a program icon that will be used in the program menus / desktop shortcuts.

Nothing standard, no. You may find python-distutils-extra (that’s the Debian/Ubuntu package name) interesting.

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but this - while working - seems the wrong thing to do, as it

insert in the general python package something that is platform-specific.

That’s the state of things with distutils. For distutils2/packaging we’re working on a better system, but it’s not fully there yet.

Regards

Is it possible to inlcuding icon with the Application in PyQt? Clearly GUI is involved, if we talk about Aplication icons. I know the topic is out of scope here, but I was just wondering... OldAl.

On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 16:46:28 +0200 Piotr Ozarowski wrote:

why do you want to use distutils for that? If it's Debian specific, use Debian tools to install these files

Hi Piotr, having an icon for a running program it's hardly a debian-specific thing: more or less any OS have icons for programs, so it seemed a candidate good enough to have been put in the abstraction layer represented by setup.py. That said, I am very new to packaging, and so far the only way I have been able to successfully build a package has been with: python setup.py --command-packages=stdeb.command bdist_deb so I was just hoping there was a way to keep it this simple! :)

(adding "dir/file.xpm /usr/share/pixmaps/" line to debian/binary-package-name.install file should be enough)

Thanks for this, sooner or later I will try again to have a crack at packaging "from the scratch" but so far I got lost in the many possible way one could do that... [I know - from the presentation you gave somewhere and I found on the intertubes - that I should focus my attention on dh_python2, but so far I haven't been able to find a tutorial easy enough for me to follow. Recommendations on learning material are most than welcome, of course!] /mac

[Mac Ryan, 2011-09-15]

having an icon for a running program it's hardly a debian-specific thing: more or less any OS have icons for programs, so it seemed a candidate good enough to have been put in the abstraction layer represented by setup.py.

/usr/share/pixmaps (or rather "menu" package that uses icons installed there) is Debian specific. More general solution - Freedesktop.org's desktop files is *nix specific (and used f.e. by GNOME or KDE in Debian)... anyway packaging (AKA distutils2) will make it easier to install such files. -- Piotr Ożarowski Debian GNU/Linux Developer www.ozarowski.pl www.griffith.cc www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: 1D2F A898 58DA AF62 1786 2DF7 AEF6 F1A2 A745 7645

On 09/16/2011 12:50 AM, Mac Ryan wrote:

having an icon for a running program it's hardly a debian-specific thing: more or less any OS have icons for programs, so it seemed a candidate good enough to have been put in the abstraction layer represented by setup.py.

I'm thinking subclass the install command to write a myapp_config.py file which contains all the installation options. The myapp_config.py should then be installed with the program package. In the program, just import myapp_config and find application data under os.path.join(myapp_config.prefix, "share/myapp/pixmaps/....") Don't know how to make this sheme works with .eggs. Most python GUI programs use some crude hacks to find their UI data. Others simply use Makefile files. All the distutil documents/tutorials avoid to talk about this problem.