BPBible 0.5 on Ubuntu

[Jonathan Morgan]

Hi all,

As of revision 1075 in SVN, BPBible 0.5 can now be run on Ubuntu 10.10 (and probably other versions of Linux), though getting it building and working is by no means an easy process (principally getting wxWebConnect built and running, which at the moment relies on having an official Mozilla binary of XULRunner in a subdirectory of the program and on the path, a patched version of SWIG, development versions of WebConnect and PyWebConnect from github, and a large amount of patience and trial and error).  This is something that we will probably want to streamline a bit before releasing, or else it will be targeting a very niche audience on Linux.

Strangely enough, it appears that the behaviour of core standard libraries in Python 2.6 such as urlparse actually differ substantially between Ubuntu and Windows.  No idea why that might be, but that took a while to figure out and fix (I still need to find a way of actually getting exceptions from the protocol handler back into the Python world, as it should be happening, but apparently isn't, meaning errors just get swallowed).

If you have any questions, feel free to get back to me.

Thanks,
Jon