thanks for that clarification. i was a bit thrown off b/c tg.devtools exists in the paster_plugin list in the setup.py. i now realize that it doesn't necessary mean that it's require like the other three lists (install_requires, setup_requires, and test_requires). thanks very much!
On Nov 30, 5:49 am, Simon Jagoe <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > If I understand it correctly, 'python setup.py develop' does basically > the same thing as 'python setup.py install', only it links the source > to your site-packages rather than installing it in there. In this > case, setup.py develop will only install tg.devtools if it is listed > in the install_dependencies in setup.py. > > I do not think it is correct to place tg.devtools in the package > dependencies because when you deploy the software to a live server > using, for example, Apache and mod_wsgi, you probably do not want to > install tg.devtools, but only the real run-time dependencies. This is > how I run my turbogears projects, but you may need to deploy in a > different way and may need tg.devtools for another reason. I don't > know why 'paster serve' requires tg.devtools, that sounds a bit odd to > me, but maybe somebody else can point out what is going on here. > > Regards, > Simon > > On Nov 29, 8:29 pm, steve <[email protected]> wrote: > > > is this the right place to report bugs? > > > 1) i started a vanilla turbogears project with 'paster quickstart -a - > > s testproject'. > > 2) i then set up the virtualenv for it an activating it, and run > > 'python setup.py develop' and it does its thing and install all the > > packages and dependencies within setup.py. > > 3) i tried to run 'paster serve --reload development.ini', but it says > > 'pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: Not Found: tg.devtools (did you > > run python setup.py develop?)'. > > > tg.devtools doesn't get installed by 'python setup.py develop'. i > > tried to run the command again and it's still not installed within my > > virtualenv's site packages. i had to run easy_install tg.devtools > > before i could successfully start paster serve. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears" 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/turbogears?hl=en.
