Ed Leafe wrote:
> On Dec 30, 2007, at 2:47 AM, Carl Karsten wrote:
>
>> I am trying to figure out how someone should install.
>>
>> http://dabodev.com/download says
>>
>> "Download, extract, and then issue (as root or administrator):
>> python setup.py install"
>>
>> 1, where does that install the tools?
>
> It doesn't. It just installs the framework. The tools are in
> subdirectories of the extracted file; you put them wherever you want.
>
Then the page needs rewording. "extract Dabo anywhere you like" is part of the
"If you have trouble..." section. I am sure most people will think they can
delete the tar/dir once they have run setup.py.
I suppose not being able to find the tools means everyone falls into the "have
trouble" category... :)
>> 2. given that the install was done as root, when they run an app as
>> a user and
>> it sees updates, how is it going to update the files a user can't
>> write to?
>
> It can't, of course. You would have to re-run the app as root.
Then someone should create a simple app that is just used for updating, of
course.
> If
> you try to update without sufficient privileges, the app will respond
> with a dialog:
>
> dabo.ui.info(_("You do not have permission to update the necessary
> files. "
> "Please re-run the app with administrator privileges."), title=_
> ("Permission Denied"))
>
That is not what I am seeing, but my current setup is... a mess of install
procedures that I plan on cleaning up someday. so I can understand if this
falls into the "you reap what you sow" OTOH, you might want to improve the
"won't work" detection.
"Framework updates are available. Do you want to update now?" hit Yes and got
1.
Dabo Error Log: Mon Dec 24 21:32:42 2007: Cannot update file: '__version__.py'.
Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied:
'/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Dabo-0.8.3-py2.5.egg/dabo/__version__.py'
2. then got a dialog:
"Dabo has been updated to revision 3825. The app will now exit. Please re-run
the application."
So not only did it fail to figure out it can't update, it failed to notice it
had failed.
>> 3. I am guessing it installs an egg, so how does the egg get updated?
>
> Assuming you have privileges, the same way as anything else: the
> files are copied to the correct location within the egg.
you can write to an egg? I guess that makes sense - you can update a zip file.
somehow I figured they were static.
I made the same mistake with disk images created with dd - you can mount the
image and update files just like it was real media. Which makes total sense
once I thought about it, but for some reason it took me years to realized it.
Carl K
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