[maemo-developers] Python Launcher released

[From: Jeffrey Barish]

luciano.wolf at indt.org.br wrote:

> It's a bit strange because it uses "which" to discover the real path. Did
> you put your script in a visible path (e.g.: /usr/bin) with execution flag
> (chmod +x)? If you run "which myapplication.py" it returns a valid path?

Before Python Launcher, I always started myapplication.py using "python
myapplication.py", which doesn't require changes to execution flag or path. 
As starting myapplication.py under Python Launcher uses the same command,
it didn't occur to me that I needed to make any changes.  With those
changes, the program starts up fine under Python Launcher without the "./"
prefix.  Thanks.

> By now the daemon only supports shutdown (python-launcher-daemon -s). This 
> stops the daemon but keeps running processes alive. The only way to kill 
> the last application is "ps -aux | grep python" and "kill -9 PID" where 
> PID is the last started python-daemon-launcher process. But would be
> better to use this only if your app freezes.

I asked because I am running myapplication from another machine using ssh
and I am viewing the program from that machine using vnc.  myapplication
runs fullscreen, so there is no quit button that I can activate through the
vnc interface.  The only way to quit my application that I know of is to go
to the N800 and push the Home key.  It was more convenient to hit ^c in
ssh, but the faster startup with Python Launcher may be worth the
inconvenience.
-- 
Jeffrey Barish