[sword-devel] InstallMgr in python Was OLPC interest still?

[Ben Morgan]

Hi,

No, I haven't been using the SVN version. I'll try this and see if it works.
Also, I don't have svn commit access at all (I used to pass my changes on to
Jason)

Thanks for the prompt reply.

God Bless,
Ben
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The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness,
but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish,
but that all should reach repentance.
2 Peter 3:9 (ESV)

On Jan 31, 2008 5:21 PM, Troy A. Griffitts <scribe at crosswire.org> wrote:

> Ben,
>
> Are you using SVN?  We had fixed some code in InstallMgr 'recently'.
>
> const static changed to
> static const
>
> in svn now.
>
> Do you still have SVN access to commit your new installmgr.i and sword.i
> changes?
>
> Thank you for working on this.
>
>        -Troy.
>
>
>
> Ben Morgan wrote:
> > See below. Near the bottom are what I think are probably core InstallMgr
> > issues.
> >
> > On Jan 22, 2008 8:02 AM, Pierre Amadio <pierre.amadio at laposte.net
> > <mailto:pierre.amadio at laposte.net>> wrote:
> >
> >     - The download/manage module is awfull. (Why is there no python
> wrapper
> >      for the InstallMgr class ? :-) ).
> >
> >
> > One reason that there is no python wrapper is that SWIG cannot parse the
> > installmgr.h file. This is due to the fact that SWIG is quite touchy
> > about the order of modifiers. Changing the lines
> >     const static int MODSTAT_OLDER;
> >     const static int MODSTAT_SAMEVERSION;
> >     const static int MODSTAT_UPDATED;
> >     const static int MODSTAT_NEW;
> >     const static int MODSTAT_CIPHERED;
> >     const static int MODSTAT_CIPHERKEYPRESENT;
> >
> > to
> >
> >     static const int MODSTAT_OLDER;
> >     static const int MODSTAT_SAMEVERSION;
> >     static const int MODSTAT_UPDATED;
> >     static const int MODSTAT_NEW;
> >     static const int MODSTAT_CIPHERED;
> >     static const int MODSTAT_CIPHERKEYPRESENT;
> >
> > will solve that problem. Could this please be fixed? It has no semantic
> > difference, but it  means that installmgr can be used in python without
> > patching the source.
> >
> > Another reason is that no one had got round to it. I have attached an
> > installmgr.i file which ought to do this. To get the status reporter
> > working, the sword.i file which you are building from must have these
> > lines added to it
> > %module(directors="1") Sword;
> > %feature("director") sword::StatusReporter;
> > %include "installmgr.i"
> >
> > However, when I try using it, it makes a pretty horrible mess (I'm using
> > VC++ Express Edition 2005 and using cURL to do the downloading, as
> > ftplib won't build)
> >
> > Under a debug build, a debug assertion is triggered on closing after
> > refreshing a remote source.
> > The assertion (part of the msvcrt debug, I think)
> > is in close.c on line 48
> > Expression: (_osfile(fh) & FOPEN)
> >
> > Under a non-debug build it crashes on trying to refresh a remote source,
> > after it has done it once (even in a different session).
> > I think this is because it is getting two files, abbott.conf and
> > fdla_en.conf with modified dates of
> > Thursday, 24 November 30044, 1:22:45 AM
> > and it can't handle deleting files with these dates.
> >
> > The debug version sets those two files' modified dates to the current
> > date/time.
> >
> > Does anyone have any ideas on why this doesn't work? This could have
> > something to do with the unzipping not working properly, but I'm not
> sure.
> >
> > God Bless,
> > Ben
> >
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness,
> > but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish,
> > but that all should reach repentance.
> > 2 Peter 3:9 (ESV)
> >
> >
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