[Eric] Is eric4 in version control somewhere?

[Detlev Offenbach]

Hi,

the bug observed by you will be fixed in the next snapshot. Meanwhile just 
surround the call to Preferences with str(...).

Detlev

On Samstag, 18. Oktober 2008, John-Scott Atlakson wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 12:52 PM, Detlev Offenbach
> <detlev at die-offenbachs.de
>
> > wrote:
> >
> > The entry is correct. There is no public source code repository available
> > because up to now it is a One-Man show (ok, some contributors for
> > translations).
> >
> > Regards,
> > Detlev
> > --
> > Detlev Offenbach
> > detlev at die-offenbachs.de
>
> I don't know what your plans are for the Eric4 project, so I don't mean to
> be presumptuous.
>
> But if you want contributors, it would be much easier if there was a public
> repository with a public issue tracker. You don't have to give write access
> to anyone until you trust their work. But with a public repository, the
> more adventurous among us could track trunk (`svn up` is much easier than
> manually downloading and extracting nightly builds, and much easier to `svn
> switch` to a known working revision). Also, with an issue tracker, some of
> us might be able to provide patches for the low hanging fruit so you can
> focus on the more tricky items.
>
> If you are interested in any of this, I would volunteer to help with the
> public issue tracker (triaging tickets etc.). If you don't want anything to
> do with this, at the very least could one person have read access to the
> repository so they could clone it on github or somewhere and see if they
> can generate interest in the project?

Any volunteers?

>
> On a side note, I can't get any of the official releases or
> eric4-4.3-snapshot-20081005 to run. They all install just fine, but each
> has different errors on startup. With the snapshot, I get the following
> error:
>
> Error in sys.excepthook:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/eric4/eric4.py", line 112, in
> excepthook
>     qWarning(str(notice) + msg + versionInfo)
> TypeError: argument 1 of qWarning() has an invalid type
>
> Original exception was:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/eric4/eric4.py", line 236, in
> <module>
>     main()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/eric4/eric4.py", line 221, in main
>     mainWindow = UserInterface(loc, splash, pluginFile, noopen,
> restartArgs) File
> "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/eric4/UI/UserInterface.py", line 581, in
> __init__
>     debugServer.startClient(False)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/eric4/Debugger/DebugServer.py",
> line 285, in startClient
>     self.__createDebuggerInterface()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/eric4/Debugger/DebugServer.py",
> line 234, in __createDebuggerInterface
>     self.debuggerInterface = DebuggerInterfacePython(self, self.passive)
>   File
> "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/eric4/Debugger/DebuggerInterfacePython.py
>", line 67, in __init__
>     self.codec =
> QTextCodec.codecForName(Preferences.getSystem("StringEncoding"))
> TypeError: argument 1 of QTextCodec.codecForName() has an invalid type
>
>
> The following are the print statements I inserted and their output:
> print type(str(notice) + msg + versionInfo)
> <type 'unicode'>
>
> print type(Preferences.getSystem("StringEncoding"))
> <class 'PyQt4.QtCore.QString'>
>
> Thanks for all your work in this one-man show. And thanks for your
> consideration of our interest in building more of a community around this
> project.
>
> Cheers,
> John-Scott



-- 
Detlev Offenbach
detlev at die-offenbachs.de