Setuptools (pip) package for WikidPad (WikidPadMP)

Wikidpad (WP) is a personal wiki written in Python. See the original repository for more information here.

There are two important differences between this version and the original (see at the end of this page).

1. The original wikidpad is usually installed via a binary installer. This version is installed as a setuptools or conda package.

2. A series of plugins (mec_plugins) are distributed along with WikidPadMP. These are located in the WikidPad/user_extensions directory. These files are named mecplugins_*.py and are useful for using Wikidpad as a dated notebook. These files are not necessary and can be removed.

The requirements are python 3.8 and (in requirements.txt):

wxPython==4.1.1

Optional requirements are (in requirements_optional.txt) are:

dateparser>=1.1.5
natsort>=8.2.0

These are needed for some of the mec_plugins.

The only absolute requirement is wxpython. I have found that a combination between python 3.8 and wxpython 4.1.1 works very well on linux mint. The only think that does not work on linux is the spell checking.

This also works quite well on windows. Several attempts have been made to make it work on MacOS, but so far not successfully afaik.

Installation with pip

pip install WikidPadMP

Installation of optional requirements

pip install -r requirements_optional.txt

Installation with Mambaforge

1. Install Mambaforge.

2. Create a new conda environment with python 3.8 mamba create python=3.8 -n wp38

3. Activate this environment mamba activate wp38

4. Install WikidPad by mamba install -c bjornfjohansson wikidpadmp

5. run from terminal by the command: wikidpad

11:17 $ mamba info

     active environment : wp38
    active env location : /home/bjorn/anaconda3/envs/wp38
            shell level : 3
       user config file : /home/bjorn/.condarc
 populated config files : /home/bjorn/.condarc
          conda version : 22.9.0
    conda-build version : 3.23.1
         python version : 3.9.15.final.0
       virtual packages : __linux=5.15.0=0
                          __glibc=2.31=0
                          __unix=0=0
                          __archspec=1=x86_64
       base environment : /home/bjorn/anaconda3  (writable)
      conda av data dir : /home/bjorn/anaconda3/etc/conda
  conda av metadata url : None
           channel URLs : https://conda.anaconda.org/conda-forge/linux-64
                          https://conda.anaconda.org/conda-forge/noarch
                          https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/main/linux-64
                          https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/main/noarch
                          https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/r/linux-64
                          https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/r/noarch
                          https://conda.anaconda.org/BjornFJohansson/linux-64
                          https://conda.anaconda.org/BjornFJohansson/noarch
          package cache : /home/bjorn/anaconda3/pkgs
                          /home/bjorn/.conda/pkgs
       envs directories : /home/bjorn/anaconda3/envs
                          /home/bjorn/.conda/envs
               platform : linux-64
             user-agent : conda/22.9.0 requests/2.28.1 CPython/3.9.15 Linux/5.15.0-56-generic linuxmint/20.3 glibc/2.31
                UID:GID : 1000:1000
             netrc file : None
           offline mode : False

My .desktop file for linux:

    #!/usr/bin/env xdg-open
    [Desktop Entry]
    Name=wikidpad
    Type=Application
    Exec=/home/bjorn/bin/wikidpad
    Terminal=false
    StartupNotify=true
    MimeType=
    Icon=/home/bjorn/Desktop/python_packages/WikidPad/WikidPad/Wikidpad_128x128x32.png
    Categories=Office;

Build a setuptools package

python setup.py bdist_wheel

twine upload dist/WikidPadMP-2.4a1.dev5-py3-none-any.whl

Build a conda package

mamba build recipe/meta.yaml --no-include-recipe


anaconda upload /home/bjorn/anaconda3/conda-bld/noarch/wikidpadmp-2.4alpha01dev5-py_0.tar.bz2

Where is what?

• pypi
• conda
• Source repository on Github
• Main website