thanks for the fast response. I dont have an older install - my first time installing satchmo.
So the first theory you provided doesnt apply. the 2nd theory, I went into the clone created and unzipped the dist/ *.egg file -- there was a tax directory in there -- but only subfolders of tax were modules and templatetags - no data directory was present. thanks, pranav On Aug 12, 7:49 pm, C <[email protected]> wrote: > Pranav, > If you'd looked through you'd know that it has been discussed in some > detail. > And yes, I reproduced something similar a week or so ago when I had > garbage left from an earlier install of Satchmo 0.9pre scattered all > over site-packages. > > Due to the switch from subversion to mercurial there seems to be some > confusion between the subversion trunk (Old, deprecated, and probably > won't install data files correctly if retrieved with subversion 1.6.x) > and the mercurial tip. Between your choice or words and the > documentation's choice of words, I have no idea which you actually > did. I also have no idea if you had an earlier version installed > before. I'm guessing that you do. > > In theory setup.py should have installed to site-packages/ > Satchmo-0.9_pre-py2.?.egg/ > Please check this theory. > If you have directories that belong in site-packages/Satchmo-0.9...egg > that are in site-packages from an earlier installation of Satchmo... > they seem to be searched first and lack the files you need. > In theory running 'unzip -v dist/*.egg | grep tax/data' in that > directory you just got by cloning tip from mercurial should result in > something like > 424 Defl:N 205 52% 2009-08-12 19:15 dfcaef56 tax/data/tax- > table.csv > Please check this theory. > In theory mercurial managed data files should be present in the egg > file. > > If either theory I requested that you check is confirmed... You have > cruft from an earilier install. Remove it. > If either theory is false, especially the unzip one, I'd like to know > a bit more about your environment. > > On Aug 12, 6:56 pm, Pranav <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I was following the install readme at this url: > > >http://www.satchmoproject.com/docs/svn/new_installation.html > > > after cloning the latest satchmo release, i ran the python setup.py > > install. > > > Then, when i go into the python site-packages folder, i find that some > > of the directories dont get copied into the site-packages satchmo > > directory. > > > For instance, the latest satchmo release has the following folders in > > the apps/tax directory: data. locale, modles, templatetags. however, > > the site-packages only has the tax/modules and tax/templatetags > > folders. > > > fixtures folders for the apps dont get copied at all to the site- > > packages directory. > > > I'm on windows, python 2.6, django 1.1 and the latest trunk release of > > satchmo. > > > i'm guessing instead of running the load_l10n i will just run / load > > the fixture data using django-admin.py ? > > > but just wanted to run this behavior by others in case you're run into > > it. > > > -pranav --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Satchmo users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/satchmo-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
