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On 7/23/2012 7:15 PM, Dick Hollenbeck wrote:
On 07/23/2012 03:07 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:On 7/23/2012 3:22 PM, Dick Hollenbeck wrote:On 07/23/2012 10:09 AM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:On 7/23/2012 9:25 AM, Dick Hollenbeck wrote:Hahaha, good point Dick, anyway, somehow, in Win32 is a common practice to include the python interpreter in many softwares that depend on python, at least the DLL (see point b) Anyway, my preferences are: a) Ask the users to install Python 2.7.x, and set it on system PATH as a prerequisite, if it's not satisfied during installation just give a link to: [http://www.python.org/getit/], it's just 15MB [apt-get does that automatically in Linux] b) Bundle the whole Python exe + Python.dll + python basic set of system libraries, c) Bundle only the Python.dll + python basic set of system libraries, d) Statically link Python in kicad + provide the basic set of python system libraries [a good way of wasting system memory] --jokes-- e) forcing the users install Linux would save a lot of time, yes, but, poor Win32 and Mac users ;) f) Installing Linux itself [KicadOS!!!, hahaha] I think that a is better than b,c (even though it needs more user interaction) because the user will have all the system-wide available python modules and libraries, and also kicad functionality will stay available to any other python scripts on the Win32 systems. Anyway, we might take a look to what other Win32 softwares are doing regarding this, and think.Good idea. Blender might be one to look at (but a couple other data points are encouraged also). Blender is heavily dependent on python, and has extremely tight scripting integration. Does it run on Windows? If so, something could be learned about what are they doing for the poor Windows users.Bundling the Python interpreter with the windows installer is probably your safest bet for most users. The other option I've seen that works well for power users is to also provide Python specific builds of the installer. Take a look at what the Bazaar folks are doing at http://wiki.bazaar.canonical.com/WindowsDownloads. It's more work for the developers building windows installers but it makes life a bit better for your users. I tend to error on the side of the user when it comes to ease of installation. Don't feel too bad for those Windows users just yet. I still do not have a fully functional 3D graphics on Linux with my AMD HD7670 graphics card. The neither the open source Radeon driver or the propriety AMD catalyst driver works properly. So I'm forced to either go buy an NVidia card or run GNOME3 in the fall back mode (read low resolution and no 3D ). In spite of Linus' rants about NVidia, their proprietary Linux drivers have never given me any problems. On Windows my shiny new graphics card works just fine. I really thought we were getting past the whole graphics card nonsense but I guess not. I'm glad I got that off my chest. I feel much better now :)When I bought my last computer, I paid $35 more to have Linux pre-installed on it. This was a linux compatibility verification only. After I got it, I installed my own Ubuntu on it and blew away what they had done. My thinking was that if the computer vendor could not get a recent linux running properly on the hardware, that my time was too valuable to even try the machine.Live and learn. I already have Zareason and System76 on the radar for my next system be it laptop or desktop. I'll be more than willing to fork out a few extra bucks to avoid the headache I'm currently dealing with.Your next computer may not even be Intel compatible, could be a 4th generation Raspberry Pi or Beaglebone. Linux compatibility is assured in such a situation. (I say that with full knowledge that Microsoft is dating ARM.) Our worst nightmare is that Microsoft buys ARM.
I shudder to think. That truly would be a nightmare.
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