Linux normally uses /dev/ttySx as serial device, not /dev/cuaX about artisan HOT 5 CLOSED

nevertheless, I meant.

Hi Lukas,

thanks for the hint. As we do not have access to a Linux machine we just did 
some educated guess on the serial ports on Linux. Good to hear that we were not 
completely off. I just added /dev/ttyS to the for loop:

            for prefix, description, klass in ( 
                ("/dev/ttyS", "Standard serial port", "serial"), 
                ("/dev/cua", "Standard serial port", "serial"), 
                ("/dev/ttyUSB", "USB to serial convertor", "serial"),
                ("/dev/usb/ttyUSB", "USB to serial convertor", "serial"), 
                ("/dev/usb/tts/", "USB to serial convertor", "serial")
                ):

Should this work?

And yes you are right wrt. the structure. The code needs some cleanup. You are 
welcome to contribute!

So you say Artisan runs on Linux!?
May I ask you if it would be possible for you to generate binaries of Artisan 
for Linux?

I found this: 
<http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00313.html>
but PyInstaller <http://www.pyinstaller.org/> might work better.

Currently we use py2exe for Windows and py2app for the Mac versions.

Marko

Hi Marko,

yes, it does indeed run on linux - I only needed to install some dependencies 
beforehand: python-matplotlib, python-numpy, python-scipy and python-qt4, 
obviously. 

Generating a single 'binary' for 'linux' is not a good idea, though - there are 
too many different distributions and flavours of linux in the wild, it simply 
wouldn't run everywhere (or even anywhere for that matter ;)).

What I'm possibly able to do is package the software for Debian-based 
distributions - either as a so called unofficial 'personal package archive 
(PPA)' for the Ubuntu distribution and/or an unoffical repository for Debian 
itself. This would take one or two weeks though.

Regards,
Lukas

Hi

Thanks for pointing out the possibility of making a Linux binary.

For linux, I've heard about bbfreeze, which is similar to py2exe and py2app

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/bbfreeze

But I am not sure if it works as described (it may not be easy).


There is also another tool called CDE to make standalone Linux programs. Looks 
much easier to use than bbfreeze but I am not sure if it works. In the video 
demo there is a matplolib program example (what we use).

http://www.stanford.edu/~pgbovine/cdepack.html


Cheers