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Hi Does anyone know if BeautifulSoup is being worked on for Maemo 5 (N900) at all?

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Rip

Beautiful soup is just one .py file - I have already used it in a project I am developing, but have no experience at packaging things. If I ever end up releasing my app I guess I could give it a go.

But if you are just looking to have a play, then you can just drop the file in to the same folder.

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I want python-lxml.

Haven't checked what's required for it to work though.
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so I can put it on the N900 and run the setup.py ?

or just the program I want to test needs to know where it is hiding?

If it really only one file, include this into the package of your project and just "import" it.

On the other hand side you could as well port the Debian package (http://packages.debian.org/sid/python-beautifulsoup) to Maemo as it would be a nice "to have" along with mechanize ;-)

I did this with python-clientform and python-mechanize. It was not that hard after some help from #python-devel.

You can look into my packages, or into other python-${module} packages to fin out how.

Most likely you only have to add pymaemo-optify to "Depends"
http://maemo.org/packages/view/python-mechanize/
http://maemo.org/packages/view/python-clientform/

Cheers
Bjoern

I'd love to I've barly got the grasp of making packages in debian with debhelper python just seems to confuse me even more.

This is very simple to install from the developer's site. Just download the latest version 3.0 release, extract, cd into the extracted directory, and then:

Working fine for me.

Cheers,
Jan

Well this is suitable for DEVS, but no enduser will install it this way.

If you write software which depends on python-beautifulsoup, you'll have to build a package for all dependencies of you software.

Thought this is only on .py file you could just include it in your project. But I would encourage you to build a package! This way not everybody has to include this .py file but can make use of the package you kindly ported to Maemo ;-)

How to quickly port a python package:

Add the Debain repositories to you /etc/apt/sources.list
Update the repo:
Get the source:
Alter the "Debian/control" file:
Update the "Debian/changelog" file.

Check the Debian/rules file

Test the package:
Maemo 5 Developer Guide - Packaging Deploying and Distributing - Creating Debian Packages

If it fails check the "Debian/rules" file.

If it builds, upload it to the autobuilder:
Maemo Extras Assistant - Step 1

Thats not that hard, is it?

Cheers
Bjoern

Nope! Most things are easy when you know how though, thank you for the instructions. Of course it doesn't quite end there, as I'm sure you know.

I assumed that the original poster was a developer looking for quick confirmation that it would work before attempting the install. I don't think an end user will ever want to install BeautifulSoup on its own anyway...

Cheers,
Jan

Go for it (I mean RipTorn in particular)

Right! So lets rig up a package RipTorn ;-)

CU
Bjoern