version 0.8 of pyjamas

[Billy Earney]

Is version 0.8 the current stable release?  On pyjs.org, I sort of get that impression, but I'm not 100% sure.  Wikipedia states that the current stable release is 0.7 (released April 2010, over 2 years ago).  Should this be updated?

If 0.8 is stable, then maybe put something in the news section of the web site?

Great work on the website, looks so much more professional than the old version. :)

[C Anthony Risinger]

On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Billy Earney <billy....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is version 0.8 the current stable release?  On pyjs.org, I sort of get that
> impression, but I'm not 100% sure.  Wikipedia states that the current stable
> release is 0.7 (released April 2010, over 2 years ago).  Should this be
> updated?

yes 0.8 is current ... as for Wikipedia, well, ehm, I don't really
know. I just standby and watch.

> If 0.8 is stable, then maybe put something in the news section of the web
> site?

sure, i'll add that tomorrow.

> Great work on the website, looks so much more professional than the old
> version. :)

thanks :-)

still much to do; what's there now was meant primarily as a stopgap
until something more suitable was ready. tomorrow is a small sprint of
sorts, with a focus on the web infrastructure, so hopefully something
interesting takes shape.

--

C Anthony

[Peter Bittner]

2012/6/16 C Anthony Risinger <ant...@xtfx.me>:

> On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Billy Earney <billy....@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Is version 0.8 the current stable release?  On pyjs.org, I sort of get that
>> impression, but I'm not 100% sure.  Wikipedia states that the current stable
>> release is 0.7 (released April 2010, over 2 years ago).  Should this be
>> updated?
>
> yes 0.8 is current ... as for Wikipedia, well, ehm, I don't really
> know.  I just standby and watch.

Here is the Wikipedia article, obviously, that Billy mentioned. Needs
some updating:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyjamas_(software)

Unfortunately I'm missing any download link for a stable release with
the current state of the website - something that could help updating
the Wikipedia article -, also I can't figure that out on GitHub...
*blush*

In general, we should follow up on all the other sites that provide
release versions of Pyjs. This one here, for example, is on pypi and
provides version 0.8.1~+alpha1: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Pyjamas
Package index owner is Luke, we should provide release on those places
too. Maybe it would be a good idea to start gathering information
about all those places e.g. in a Wiki page or a section on the website
explaining the download options. That would include packages for the
various Linux distributions, Windows and OSX installer.

Are there volunteers (or known previous contributors?) for the various
packaging tasks? I bet Luke did all or most of that himself.

Cheers, Peter

[C Anthony Risinger]

On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Peter Bittner <peter....@gmx.net> wrote:
> 2012/6/16 C Anthony Risinger <ant...@xtfx.me>:
>> On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Billy Earney <billy....@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Is version 0.8 the current stable release?  On pyjs.org, I sort of get that
>>> impression, but I'm not 100% sure.  Wikipedia states that the current stable
>>> release is 0.7 (released April 2010, over 2 years ago).  Should this be
>>> updated?
>>
>> yes 0.8 is current ... as for Wikipedia, well, ehm, I don't really
>> know.  I just standby and watch.
>
> Here is the Wikipedia article, obviously, that Billy mentioned. Needs
> some updating:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyjamas_(software)

yeah i found it ;-) my qualm here is because this project is not the
Pyjamas project, but rather it's direct descendant and replacement at
pyjs.org: Pyjs. while i will not modify that page, i'm neither
discouraging nor encouraging anyone else. in due time, when the
codebase has diverged enough it's Pyjamas origins, a new Wikipedia
page is more appropriate ... but now is probably not that time.

> Unfortunately I'm missing any download link for a stable release with
> the current state of the website - something that could help updating
> the Wikipedia article -, also I can't figure that out on GitHub...
> *blush*

ah yes indeed ... the download link was in the header/sidebar and
didn't make it to the wiki-generated site. i will fix this tonight,
or more likely, tomorrow.

> In general, we should follow up on all the other sites that provide
> release versions of Pyjs. This one here, for example, is on pypi and
> provides version 0.8.1~+alpha1: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Pyjamas
> Package index owner is Luke, we should provide release on those places
> too.

recently, Anthon secured the `pyjs` package on PyPi:

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyjs/0.8.1-dev

... the downloads are available in the Downloads section of Github:

https://github.com/pyjs/pyjs/downloads

... and tags are available here:

https://github.com/pyjs/pyjs/tags

... the 0.8.1a.zip file from here:

https://github.com/pyjs/pyjs/zipball/0.8.1a

... should be uploaded to PyPi (Anthon? hint hint ... or touch base
w/me and i'll work it out :-)

> Maybe it would be a good idea to start gathering information
> about all those places e.g. in a Wiki page or a section on the website
> explaining the download options.

that's seems reasonable.

> That would include packages for the
> various Linux distributions, Windows and OSX installer.
>
> Are there volunteers (or known previous contributors?) for the various
> packaging tasks? I bet Luke did all or most of that himself.

these have never existed AFAIK. i maintain the Archlinux package, and
i vaguely recall someone mentioning a Gentoo overlay, but i'm not
aware of any other packages save some random deb files on Luke's site.
the one .deb from the download section was privately contracted to
Luke by Lex, which he then shared with the rest of us. as for
OSX/Windows, i don't think an installer has ever existed ... what is
the installer suppose to do exactly? users only need the code to
begin ... though perhaps a Windows one could setup the Trident/MSHTML
runtime.

this could be done automatically, like the website rebuilds, but i've
not done any work here yet; if anyone can contribute the
knowledge/script of how to accomplish, i can integrate into a the
build tool. eventually, when waf is rocking, it can perform these
tasks directly when building the release tarballs.

--

C Anthony