Re: [Gnumed-devel] Re: windows installer

[David Grant]

Karsten Hilbert wrote:

> > I'm not sure why Hilmar mentioned "install python at the very 
> > beginning".  Why is gnumed even concerned with installing python?  The 
> > gnumed install should not work if python is not installed/detected.
> >    
> I certainly agree with this assessment.
>
>  
>
> > I agree NSIS is good.  But I think most of the work should be done by 
> > distutils and NSIS should just call "python setup.py" or whatever.  I'm 
> > not an expert on this BTW.
> >    
> ACK. However, "GnuMed" is not a "Python program". It is an
> application package consisting of - among other things -
> Python scripts. python setup.py isn't suitable.
>
>  
Please elaborate.  I looked at the source and it looks like there are a 
bunch of python scripts which talk to the database on the server side, 
and the current client seems to be the python/wxPython one.  What else 
is in there, which isn't Python?  I think usually this is still easily 
handled by the main setup.py script, if there are other binaries or 
files to be installed.

> > > One final suggestion: don't use environment variables such as PYTHONPATH to 
> > > tell gnumed where
> > > to find modules. 
> > >      
> > I don't get this.  All modules (like wxPython) should be in 
> > site-packages, so any python program should find them fine.
> >    
> ACK.
>
>  
When looking at the gnumed prerequisites, I don't see any of them being 
anywhere except for in site-packages.  So python finds them fine.