Running pgadmin4 as desktop application - Mailing list pgadmin-hackers

Hi Dave,

On Thu, 2016-10-06 at 13:42 +0100, Dave Page wrote:
>
> The global config file that Qt will read by default seems to be
> "/etc/pgAdmin Development Team/pgAdmin 4.conf".
>
> I may change that for 1.1 to use a less obnoxious path. The contents
> of it seem to need to be:
>
> [General]
> ApplicationPath=../../../../usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pgadmin4-web/
> PythonPath="/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/;/usr/lib/python2.7/site-
> packages/"
>
> The ApplicationPath is the directory containing pgAdmin4.py. Due to a
> bugette in the way the runtime works, it needs to be relative to the
> location of the runtime, hence all the back-tracking. The PythonPath
> needs to include both the 32 and 64 bit directories, as it seems that
> some of the Python modules end up in each.
>
> That was enough to get it to start for me.

Ok, this worked on CentOS 7 box, but not on Fedora 24, which has QT5 and Python
3. Can you help me to debug this? The content of the file in Fedora 24 is:

$ cat /etc/pgAdmin\ Development\ Team/pgAdmin\ 4.conf 
[General]
ApplicationPath=../../../..//usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/pgadmin4-web/
PythonPath="/usr/lib64/python3.5/site-packages; /usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages"

I'm still getting segfault, and:

An error occurred initialising the application server:

Failed to locate pgAdmin4.py, terminating server thread.

> Then, we run into the tricky issues, where you may have to deal with
> conflicts between web and desktop mode. In our other installers, we
> ship a blank config_local.py file, with a simple comment at the top
> telling the user they can customise any settings in that file. For web
> users, we don't want that, as it's used as a security mechanism
> (startup will fail if it's not present, and tell the user they must
> set some security-critical options). Those options don't matter in
> desktop mode, hence why we pre-write the file.
>
> Perhaps the way around that is to have the shortcut on the menu call a
> script that can create config_local.py if needed? Though, I see you
> already have config_distro.py forcing the user into desktop mode,
> which is a potential conflict.

AFAICS, creating the file above helped to solve this issue, at least I can say
that both modes work on CentOS 7.

> The other issue I see is with the docs:
>
> 1) The path in config_distro.py is
> /usr/share/doc/pgadmin4-docs/en_US/html/. That directory doesn't exist
> - if the docs are compiled in-situ, they'll end up in
> /usr/share/doc/pgadmin4-docs/en_US/html/_build/html
>
> 2) The docs aren't built, so there is no _build/html directory.

Actuallly they are installed via -docs subpackage, but I forgot to add this as
a dependency.

> 3) The docs are integrated into the application so really should be a
> dependency of the pgadmin4 RPM.

Ok, fixed. Pushed to 9.6 testing repo:

yum  --enablerepo pgdg96-updates-testing install pgadmin4 pgadmin4-web

(Packages will appear in next sync ;) )

Can you please test again?