Re: PoC electron and pgAdmin4

Hi Joao,

Attaching the screenshot.

On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 7:50 PM, Joao De Almeida Pereira <
jdealmeidapereira(at)pivotal(dot)io> wrote:

> Hello
> That is unfortunate. Can you run directly the python app?
> Go to the folder where you installed the application using a
> terminal/PowerShell/cmd and use the python from the venv folder to run the
> pgadmin4.py file and let me know the error that you are getting.
>
> venv/bin/python pgadmin4/pgadmin4.py
>
> Or
> venv\Scripts\python.exe pgadmin4\pgadmin4.py
>
> Depending on the environment
>
> Also there might be a caption problem I am not on my machine now so I
> cannot double check.
>
> Thanks
> Joao
>
> On Mon, Feb 26, 2018, 2:44 AM Murtuza Zabuawala <murtuza.zabuawala@
> enterprisedb.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Joao,
>>
>> Does not work for me either.
>>
>> Tested on platforms:
>> Win10 Pro x64 (Old VM)
>> Win10 Pro x64 (Fresh VM)
>>
>> Same behaviour on both of the VMs, I waited for one and half minutes but
>> still it didn't start.
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Murtuza Zabuawala
>> EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
>> The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 1:44 AM, Joao De Almeida Pereira <
>> jdealmeidapereira(at)pivotal(dot)io> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Hackers,
>>> After the removal of the Webkit environment we gave a shot to add
>>> electron as our runtime environment. We were able to do it with some degree
>>> of success.
>>> The links to get a version running with electron are:
>>> Windows: https://storage.googleapis.com/pgadmin-
>>> binaries/releases/pgAdmin%204%20Setup%203.0.0.exe
>>> Mac: https://storage.googleapis.com/pgadmin-
>>> binaries/releases/pgAdmin%204-3.0.0.dmg
>>> Ubuntu: https://storage.googleapis.com/pgadmin-
>>> binaries/releases/pgAdmin4_3.0.0_amd64.deb
>>> RPM: https://storage.googleapis.com/pgadmin-
>>> binaries/releases/pgAdmin4-3.0.0.x86_64.rpm
>>>
>>> What did we accomplish:
>>> - Use Electron as a runtime and packaging solution for the application
>>> - Support opening new windows when the preferences ask for them
>>> - Make the application generally work
>>> - Use Chrome as a default browser for the application
>>> - Building scripts for all platforms using `yarn`, please review Readme
>>> - The packaged Python version is 3.6 to Mac and Linux, and 3.4 to
>>> Windows
>>> - In our point of view it is a simpler way to generate the installers
>>>
>>> Work in progress:
>>> - No random port for the server, so you can only start 1 instance per
>>> machine
>>> - Tab support, there is no native support for tabs in Electron. It is
>>> possible to do that, and eventually you will see a option in the menu to
>>> create a new tab, but for this PoC we decided to disable the creation of
>>> tabs. Tabs need to be implemented using HTML and cannot be ripped of from
>>> the current window, like in Chrome
>>> - Did not test in CentOS, but tested in Ubuntu and it is working (We
>>> tried but the electron required GLIBC 2.25 that was not on the version of
>>> CentOS that we had)
>>> - In Linux despite the fact that we close the window, the application
>>> is still running and need to be killed by hand
>>> - We didn't test Debigger opening in new window
>>> - Loading screen has no reference to pgAdmin
>>> - No logging file for the runtime
>>> - Windows we are using python 3.4 and using prior version of psycopg2
>>> 2.5.6 and pycrypto 2.6.1 (The version of psycopg2 is not the correct one,
>>> this is because we couldn't find a precompile version of psycopg2)
>>> - This is just a spike and the code looks pretty messy. This need to be
>>> changed in order to make it more readable and have some tests around it
>>>
>>> Please give it a try and let us know what you think about it. If you
>>> find any problem let us know as well.
>>> This is just a Proof Of Concept, where the majority of the application
>>> should be running correctly but there might be some glitches,
>>>
>>> You can find the code in: https://github.com/greenplum-db/pgadmin4/tree/
>>> electron-over-master
>>> Readme: https://github.com/greenplum-db/pgadmin4/blob/
>>> electron-over-master/electron/README.md
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Joao
>>>
>>
>>