[Coco] pyDriveWire v0.5a

[coco at jechar.ca]

Michael

When I tried to run get-pip.py I realized that it depends on python2.7
but my laptop is Linux Mint 19.3 and to much of that system requires
python3 so for now I am out of luck making pyDriveWire work.

Fortunately I still have raspberry pi's where I have frozen the JAVA 
version
security be damned but really ideal would a version that will just work 
like
an appimage if that is possible or runable from some version of linux in
a VM.

In any case Yes I am interested in testing the binary version when it
becomes available.

Charlie


On 2020-03-22 11:37, Michael Furman wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> I’m the author of pyDriveWire.  There was a hiatus in development in
> between August and February— I simply got burned out.  I have started
> to pick my projects back up this past week.  There are still many
> plans in the works for pyDriveWire.  I’m not yet sure how far I will
> get before the original Coco Fest date whether it will be a bug fix or
> feature release.
> 
> At the moment there is not a binary distribution of pyDriveWire that
> you can just download and run. I am working on this right now but it
> is not ready for public release.  Unfortunately this means you must
> deal with installing a few python packages to get pyDriveWire running.
> I had written instructions for this at some point but somehow they got
> modified and lost.
> 
> Regarding pip — it is the python package installer.  This must be
> installed first.
> 
> 1. Download the pip installer script from 
> https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
> 
> 2. Install it by running: pypy get-pip.py
> 
> 3. After pip is installed and working you use it to install pyserial
> using the original command that failed before: pypy -m pip install
> pyserial
> 
> Lastly, I could use some help to test the binary package distributions
> of pyDriveWire. Please let me know if you are interested.
> 
> —Mikey
> 
>> On Mar 21, 2020, at 15:10, Bruce W. Calkins 
>> <brucewcalkins at charter.net> wrote:
>> 
>> My first question: is the module the programmer looking for where the 
>> programmer looking? You may have to move it to the propper folder.
>> 
>> Bruce W.
>> 
>> 
>>> On 3/21/20 4:12 PM, coco at jechar.ca wrote:
>>> 
>>> Last summer I tryed pyDriveWire v0.5a but got nowhere with it so
>>> I thought I would just wait a while and try version 0.6 when
>>> it came out but it hasn't which makes me wonder if it is still
>>> being developed.
>>> 
>>> I followed instructions for Ubuntu at:
>>> https://github.com/n6il/pyDriveWire
>>> 
>>> but when I type:
>>> sudo pypy -m pip install pyserial
>>> 
>>> I get the error:
>>> 
>>> /usr/bin/pypy: No module named pip
>>> 
>>> Does anyone know how to resolve such an error
>>> and weather a version 0.6 is comeing soon ?
>>> 
>>> Charlie.
>>> 
>> 
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