Dependencies

This page lists packages picurl depends on and states the licenses of these packages. Italic Letters refer to "inner dependencies" (code fragments from other projects that were directly incorporated into our source code, mostly because they had to be adapted to meet picurls needs.)

picurl core

• Python (>= 2.4), licensed under the Python License

Picurl GUI

• web.py

Removable volumes plug-in

The following modules need to be installed on Linux:

• dbus-python, MIT license

The following modules need to be installed on Windows:

• TODO (fb): add list of dependencies for windows

HTTP plug-in

• BeautifulSoup, licensed under the Python License

FTP plug-in

• ftputil, licensed under the New BSD License

Flickr plug-in

• ElementTree, licensed under the ElementTree License = OSI Historical permission notice and disclaimer
• picurl.lib.flickrestsync.py is based on flickrest.py from Ross Burton, licensed under a LGPL license.

Metadata reading

• python-imaging, licensed under the PIL License = OSI Historical permission notice and disclaimer

RSS Feed generator

• PyRSS2Gen (BSD License)

picurl win32

For the windows version of picurl, some additional dependencies are required:

• Python Extensions for Windows, licensed under the Python License
• Py2Exe, licensed under the MIT License

picurl.util

picurl.util uses some utility functions borrowed from other sources:

• Cross-platform which-emulation based on a method from Mark Lutz' launcher.py (example script released with Programming Python, 3rd Edition, O'Reilly)
• Cross-platform pipe-functionality based on a Python recipe by Josiah Carlson
• Various utility functions from Tim Golden's Python Stuff, which will be stated more exactly after implementation.

External, optional Dependencies

For standard use cases, picurl is designed to run 'out-of-the-box' and doesn't require any external program. To enable advanced functions (Camera Raw support, advanced metadata parsing), picurl needs the following external programs:

• Exiftool, licensed under the Perl License
• dcraw, dcraw Windows Binaries, unknown license
• ImageMagick, licensed under the GPL-compatible ImageMagick License

NOTE: These tools will not ship with picurl and have to be downloaded separately. picurl can auto-detect the presence of these tools, if they are in your system path. On Linux or MacOS X, this is done automatically. On Windows, you have to add the installation path of the tool to the environment variable PATH. Editing the PATH variable on Windows