mnemosyne 2.0 for linux

[robertle]

hi folks,

I have been maintaining the debian packages of mnemosyne so far, and
debian is removing qt3 for good. So I either need to get mnemosyne
working with qt4, or remove the package from debian for now.

I suspect taking version 2.0 is the easiest way to get it to work with
qt4, so I wanted to play around with that a bit to see how it goes (I
am of course aware that this is a release candidate).

However, I can't find any package for linux, which I thought is a bit
strange because building the tarball doesn't seem like a big thing. Is
there such a package? Or can anyone see a simple way to get mnemosyne
1.2.2 to work with qt4?

thanks robert

[Peter Bienstman]

Thanks for packaging 2.0!

Currently, linux folks get the code via bzr:

http://www.mnemosyne-proj.org/hacking.php

When I get back from travelling, I will also put up a tarball.

Cheers,

Peter


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[robertle]

hi peter,

On May 29, 6:48 am, "Peter Bienstman" <Peter.Bienst...@UGent.be>
wrote:

> Currently, linux folks get the code via bzr:
> http://www.mnemosyne-proj.org/hacking.php

yeah, I had a play with that and it seems to basically work

> When I get back from travelling, I will also put up a tarball.

excellent, I'd much prefer some sort of non-moving upstream to base
the debian package on,
although it could in theory be based directly on a source repo.

I'll start some of the packaging work and testing here based on the
bzr version, and will switch to your tarball once available

regards robert

[robertle]

update: I have built provisional packages from the current bzr
checkout, anyone interested please have a look and let me know if
there
are any problems: http://www.semistable.com/files/

I also did apply some changes to get it to work and/or make it more
policy-compliant, perhaps some of it is of interest to you as well:

--- a/mnemosyne/libmnemosyne/configuration.py
+++ b/mnemosyne/libmnemosyne/configuration.py
@@ -234,9 +234,9 @@
join = os.path.join
# Create paths.
if not exists(self.data_dir):
- os.mkdir(self.data_dir)
+ os.makedirs(self.data_dir)
if not exists(self.config_dir):
- os.mkdir(self.config_dir)
+ os.makedirs(self.config_dir)
for directory in ["history", "plugins", "backups"]:
if not exists(join(self.data_dir, directory)):
os.mkdir(join(self.data_dir, directory))
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mnemosyne.1
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+.TH MNEMOSYNE 1 "" "Mnemosyne" "Spaced Repetition Flash-card Program"
+.SH NAME
+mnemosyne \- spaced repetition flash-card program
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B mnemosyne
+.RI [ options ]
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+The Mnemosyne software resembles a traditional flash-card program to
help you
+memorise question/answer pairs, but with an important twist: it uses
a
+sophisticated algorithm to schedule the best time for an item to come
up for
+review. Difficult items that you tend to forget quickly will be
scheduled more
+often, while Mnemosyne won't waste your time on things you remember
well.
+
+Since Mnemosyne is a KDE application, it is usually not started from
a shell,
+but from an X11 menu, and doesn't take many options. For a few hints
on how to
+use the software, see the homepage at http://www.mnemosyne-proj.org
+.SH AUTHOR
+mnemosyne was written by Peter Bienstman <Peter.B...@UGent.be>
and friends
+
--- a/mnemosyne/webserver/mnemosyne-webserver
+++ b/mnemosyne/webserver/mnemosyne-webserver
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+#!/usr/bin/python
+
#
# mnemosyne_webserver <Peter.B...@UGent.be>
#

regards robert

[Peter Bienstman]

Thanks a lot!

I committed the patch (Mnemosyne is Qt app, not a KDE though).

If you still want a tarball, do 'make distrib' and look into the 'dist' dir.

Cheers,

Peter

[robertle]

On May 30, 8:30 pm, "Peter Bienstman" <Peter.Bienst...@UGent.be>
wrote:

> I committed the patch (Mnemosyne is Qt app, not a KDE though).

ok, will change the manpage accordingly, will probably say "GUI"
anyway...

> If you still want a tarball, do 'make distrib' and look into the 'dist' dir.

that's what I did, if you want I can just continue doing so, I'd also
slap a
date on the version number to make it more explicit when this was
taken
from bzr. the only problem with this is that people might have a
problem
and report that they have version 2.0~RC1-20120531, which doesn't
exist
outside of debian. most upstreams would prefer everyone to use the
same
set of versions, so that support is easier. that's why I was wondering
if you
want to make an "official" rc2 tarball...

regards robert

[Peter Bienstman]

OK, thanks!

The official RC2 tarball will come when RC2 is officially released.

Cheers,

Peter

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