Hi Miles,
On Mar 1, 3:50 pm, Miles <clar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All -
>
> I had a bit of a problem installing Kamaelia 0.6.0 under Windows, and
> I thought I'd pass along my experience.
Many thanks for this, it's really useful - I personally tend to only
use Kamaelia on Linux or Mac OS X[1], so reports like this are very
welcome.
[1] the former more than the latter
> I'm using Python 2.6.1 on Windows XP Service Pack 3.
>
> * Kamaelia appears to require setuptools to install. Setuptools
> doesn't have a Windows installer for 2.6, so I installed from source
> using python setup.py install. Not a big deal, but still a touch
> clumsy.
This was a decision taken after Pycon UK last year when there were
comments
that it would be nice to use easy_install to install Kamaelia. I
personally
tend prefer a "python setup.py install" approach, but it seemed a
relatively
simple change. I wasn't aware at the time of this issue with
setuptools on
windows.
> * Once setuptools was installed, I tried "easy_install Kamaelia".
> This resulted in the following stack trace:
...
> dir = convert_path(f[0])
> File "c:\Python26\lib\distutils\util.py", line 164, in convert_path
> raise ValueError, "path '%s' cannot be absolute" % pathname
> ValueError: path '/usr/local/share/kamaelia' cannot be absolute
This was recently raised by another person on the list, but I hadn't
had
a chance to look into resolving the issue (cf note above).
> Installing Kamaelia from source (python setup.py install) gave me the
> same error.
Indeed.
> The problem appears to be the following line in setup.py:
>
> data_files=[ ('/usr/local/share/kamaelia', ['App/
> kamaelia_logo.png']) ],
>
> I changed this to:
>
> data_files=[ ('share/kamaelia', ['App/kamaelia_logo.png']) ],
>
> and it seemed to work (it place the logo under the egg directory in
> share/kamaelia).
Interesting. I'll explore how that works on Linux/Mac OS X and find
out
where things get put (or rather how apps can find them). This had been
discussed on IRC in the past couple of days as well, and I was
pondering
how to resolve this, and this looks like a potential solution -
thanks! :)
> Is anyone using Kamaelia under Windows in production? I'm evaluating
> it for this purpose and any feedback would be helpful. Thanks!
I don't know of anyone using Kamaelia under windows in production.
However, we have put fixes in for windows in the past when issues have
been discovered (for example different errno's for socket errors from
Unix), and significant chunks of code should just work.
My suggestion would be to play with the system to see if it fits your
usecase, and to let us know if you encounter any issues. My
expectation is
that thinks should generally just work, depending on what you're
aiming to
do.
However I won't come outright and say "This will definitely be
perfect" for
the simple reason I don't personally use Kamaelia on windows enough to
feel
comfortable making that claim (I tend to be cautious :) .
Regards,
Michael.
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