Changing symbol library sometimes makes Sconcho not want to open file

[marnen]

I have noticed a problem in Sconcho when the symbol library is changed. I believe the steps to reproduce are as follows:

1. Create a Sconcho document (I'll call this Document 1).
2. Add custom symbols to the symbol library.
3. Use the new symbols in Document 1.
4. Save Document 1.
5. Open another file or create a new one.
6. Reopen Document 1.

At this point, Document 1 will not open; Sconcho will instead throw an error. If you quit and relaunch Sconcho, it will open Document 1 without any problems.

I'm using Sconcho 0.1.1 on Mac OS X 10.8.

[haskelladdict]

Thanks a lot for your report and sorry for the delay in responding. Have you by any chance tried if this is still an issue with the most recently released beta version (0.2.0_b6)?

[marnen]

No. Where would I get that beta? I don't see anything for download on SF or GitHub.

[haskelladdict]

You can get the beta at http://sourceforge.net/projects/sconcho/files/development/

Unfortunately, I only have the beta versions as raw sources (not as compiled dmg images) and you would have to install the dependencies yourself (such as python, pyQt, etc.) which is somewhat involved on OSX (unless you are already using homebrew/macports then you simply need to install pyQt4 with python3 support). I've so far been unsuccessful creating dmg images for the sconcho-0.2 betas for a number of reasons but I'll try again.

[marnen]

I am using Homebrew, so I'll look at the beta if I have time.

BTW, while I think a self-contained .app continues to be the best way to package this for Mac, I can probably create a Homebrew formula if that seems like a good idea...

[haskelladdict]

Sounds great. I completely agree that providing a self contained app would be best. Unfortunately, the packaging tool I was using for sconcho-0.1 only works for python2 based code (last time I checked) and thus doesn't work for sconcho-0.2 which is based on python3.

[marnen]

Good to know. What tool was that?

[haskelladdict]

I used py2app for sconcho-0.1. For sconcho-0.2 I tried using cx_freeze with supports python3. Unfortunately, I was never able to get a fully self-contained app with cx_freeze probably due to a bug somewhere in cx_freeze or a misconfiguration on my part. I should try again with the most recent version.

[marnen]

Looks like py2app works with python 3: https://bitbucket.org/ronaldoussoren/py2app/issue/50/py2app-fails-in-building-under-python-32

[haskelladdict]

Thanks! I'll take another look at py2app.

[marnen]

Any news? Should I attempt to build with py2app?

[haskelladdict]

Sure. If you could give this a try that would be great. Unfortunately, I haven't gotten around to take a closer look at this myself. My apologies.

[marnen]

Yeah, neither have I...