Thu 14 Dec 2006
In this day and age when we are all looking for the next killer app sometimes one finds a gem if they just look a little smaller. I just stumbled on a little python app called Gourmet which is a personal recipe database. Some of the nice features include a measure converter, serving multiplier and shopping list generator. It is a bit rough around the edges but mostly all it needs is some HIG love. I would also like to see a weight to measure calculator since most chefs go by weight and not volume when measuring things like flour and butter. I ended up packaging it up for Fedora. If I have time I will start to hack on it. One of the first things I want to do is free its dependency on both python-imaging and python-reportlab. Cairo will most likely suffice without bringing in dependencies like tk, tcl and tkinter.
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December 14th, 2006 at 1:50 am
John, you may want to get in contact with Jeff Spaleta, who intends to maintain it in Fedora Extras. See https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-extras-list/2006-December/msg00310.html for more information.
December 14th, 2006 at 2:03 am
cough…..
you are just finding this now?
it was in fedora extras but was orphaned during the fc5 time frame by the last maintainer. My wife has been using this since fc2 or fc3, so now that I moved her box over to fc6 I was going to pick up the maintainership of the package. I’m in the process of de-orphaning it now. I was actually going to submit this to extras-development for a build this evening.
Do you want to maintain this? I’m certaintly not going to fight you for it.
-jef
December 14th, 2006 at 12:21 pm
I’m interested to see python-imaging (PIL) again. It seems to be very easy to use, so much so that developers prefer to use it when GdkPixbuf could give them all the basics without an extra dependency, but maybe GdkPixbuf is just a little too basic?
A thorough HIG review is always a good thing but if you are stuck for time you can often get easier short term gains by embracing and extending ideas from another application with a similiar user interface.
Gourmet is a program for managing recipe collections but you might also be able to borrow ideas or share code with other collection managers, maybe from Griffith a movie collection manager also written in python.
December 14th, 2006 at 12:50 pm
Probably not what you want, but this is a web app I wrote:
http://www.jandr.org/rl/
Features multi language recipes, photos, nutrition info calculation, works with MySQL or PgSQL, easy import/export to other recipelyzers.