7 traps & gotchas

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bug Lady edited this page Nov 28, 2019 · 9 revisions

this is a woefully incomplete attempt to list a few "rough edges" of pyBM, which may cause confusion to newbies:

https://github.com/Bitmessage/PyBitmessage/blob/v0.6/src/bitmessagecli.py is a CLI app to run BM which works only in /src/ move it away into some "attic" dir to avoid confusion and unclutter /src/ from "chaff".
bitmessageui.ui in v0.6 is outdated and not used long ago. If you want to edit xml, use https://github.com/g1itch/PyBitmessage/tree/ui-refactoring Though it has translation problems. using

pyuic4 /src/bitmessageqt/bitmessageui.ui -o src/bitmessageqt/bitmessageui.py after editing with Qt4-Designer will break the whole app now.
even though running ./bitmessagemain.py straight away used to work, it is better to run python2 setup.py build beforehand to avoid crashes e.g. on Fedora.
it behooves you to use export BITMESSAGE_HOME="/mnt/…… rather than portable mode in Linux. This actually avoids crashes.
subscriptions are lost after deletion of messages.dat which might not be obvious. make API script to auto keep.

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