Just wanna help

[pascal7718_gmail]

hi everyone,
Recently I've been looking for a nice tool for mind map in Linux, and I
happened to find labyrinth who's written by my favourite python, so I
just wanna ask if I can participate in this group and do a little help?
Where can I get started? I am really appreciate to your reply.



Sincerely,
Leesper

[Thomas Kluyver]

Hi Leesper,

Joining this mailing list is a good start ;-). Development happens on Github:
https://github.com/labyrinth-team/labyrinth

Probably the best thing is to start using Labyrinth, and see what problems you find. But there are a few things I'd like to see someone do:

- Create some tests, either unit tests if any bits are sufficiently isolated, or GUI tests using a framework like dogtail. This would give us some confidence that new development wasn't breaking things.

- Make a Windows build. Earlier versions had Windows builds, but I'm not maintaining that.

- Fix some bugs in Pango so we can move to using the newer gobject introspection bindings instead of pygtk. E.g. this bug: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=646788

Best wishes,
Thomas

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[gretchen schulfer]

is there any update on a Windows build? i wish i knew how to do this or i would help. i love Labyrinth, though, and would like to recommend it to more people who would require a Windows version.

thanks so much!
gretchen

[Thomas Kluyver]

Hi Gretchen,

I've actually recently made a tool to build windows installers for python applications, called pynsist. I haven't tried it with a pygtk application yet, so it might take a bit of fiddling, but if you're interested in this, have a look at the docs here:
http://pynsist.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

Best wishes,
Thomas

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[Thomas Kluyver]

Hi Gretchen,

I've had a go at making a Windows installer for Labyrinth, which you can download from here:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/60195410/Labyrinth_0.6.exe

It's at least roughly working in my Windows 7 VM, but I haven't tested it much - please report any bugs you find. I've made the changes for this in a win-installer branch:
https://github.com/labyrinth-team/labyrinth/tree/win-installer

Thanks,
Thomas

[gretchen schulfer]

this is amazing news, Thomas! i can't tell you how much i appreciate it! i had tried to create an installer using pynsist, but wasn't having much luck (based strictly on the fact that i'm a Python novice and had no idea what i was doing :) anyway, i will report any bugs in the win-installer branch. thank you so much! you've made my day :)

[Thomas Kluyver]

On 4 June 2014 09:34, gretchen schulfer <gsch...@gmail.com> wrote:

this is amazing news, Thomas! i can't tell you how much i appreciate it! i had tried to create an installer using pynsist, but wasn't having much luck (based strictly on the fact that i'm a Python novice and had no idea what i was doing :) anyway, i will report any bugs in the win-installer branch. thank you so much! you've made my day :)

You're welcome! It was a bit tricky to work out everything it needed, but I've checked in a script (grab_files.sh) which pulls together all the necessary Windows libraries, so it should be easy to rebuild the installers now. I've actually written that bit as a Linux shell script, because that's easiest, but it could easily be translated to a cross-platform Python script if you want to run it on Windows.

To build the installer on Linux:

1. Install pynsist (pip install pynsist) and nsis (on Debian-based distros, sudo apt-get install nsis)

2. Get the necessary libraries: ./grab_files.sh

3. Build the installer: pynsist installer.cfg

Even better, I've just worked out how to avoid relying on numpy, which makes it easier to build the installer, and makes the installer about 25% smaller. I've posted the new installer in the same place:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/60195410/Labyrinth_0.6.exe

Best wishes,
Thomas