Dohickey Alpha 0.5

[Martin Owens]

Hi all again,

You should find a new package which allows you to do normal installs
and run it from uninstalled; give it a try. oh and a new screen shot.

It's taken me two days to work out how to package this stuff together
so as not to cause problems. thanks to David Zeuthen for all his good
advice.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/dohickey/

Best Regards, Martin Owens

On 04/03/07, David Zeuthen <david at fubar.dk> wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-03-04 at 12:59 -0500, Martin Owens wrote:
> > Hello All,
> >
> > I'm struggling a bit making sure the client for the Dohickey project
> > works on machines other than Ubuntu Edgy and also I've had people
> > asking me about updates and so forth so today I release a client alpha
> > which can be downloaded at sourceforge:
> > https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=177020
> >
> > I invite you all to download it and cause it problems and let me know
> > via bug tracker.
>
> So I tried this out; here are some observations
>
>  - It would be nice not having to 'make install' to try this. Running
>    software from the checked out directory is nice and a lot of people
>    get turned off by doing 'make install' as it might screw up their
>    system.
>
>    Look e.g. at the ./run-hald.sh scripts for example (yes, it requires
>    some mocking with paths and whatnot). You can run something as
>    complex as HAL (with tons of helpers etc.) without 'make install'.
>
>  - tarball with released files should unpack files in <name>-<version>,
>    not just <name>
>
>  - you should use $DESTDIR - without this it's hard to package as RPM or
>    DEB's. There's probably some python magic to do all this for you.
>
>  - "We regret that Dohickey can only be run in administrator mode."
>
>    I'm unsure why you'd even want to run a client for collecting
>    hardware information as root? I haven't read through your code
>    but if you need information HAL can give you just ask for it.
>
>  -  When trying to run it: could not find glade file
>     '/home/doctormo/SVN/dohickey_client/do.glade'
>
>  - Unsure also why you need configuration files at all. And especially
>    system-wide ones.
>
> Anyway, hope this helps. Thanks.
>
>      David
>
>
>