On Jun 5, 2011, at 5:28 PM, Massimo Di Pierro wrote:
>
> Can you help us debug this?
>
> In applications/admin/wizard.py
>
> if not
> app_create(app,request,force=True,key=params['security_key']):
> session.flash = 'Failure to create application'
> redirect(URL('step6'))
>
> ### save metadata in newapp/
> wizard.metadata
> meta = os.path.join(request.folder,'..',app,'wizard.metadata')
> file=open(meta,'wb')
>
> Why is the open failing? Was a applications/foobar created?
Maybe you ought to be calling os.path.normpath.
>
>
>
> On Jun 4, 4:08 pm, weheh <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 1.96.3 I tried the new app wizard for kicks. I let everything
>> default except for the app name, "foobar". Wizard crashed.
>>
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>> File "N:\web2py\gluon\restricted.py", line 188, in restricted
>> exec ccode in environment
>> File "N:/web2py/applications/admin/controllers/wizard.py", line 572,
>> in <module>
>> File "N:\web2py\gluon\globals.py", line 96, in <lambda>
>> self._caller = lambda f: f()
>> File "N:/web2py/applications/admin/controllers/wizard.py", line 200,
>> in step6
>> create(form.vars)
>> File "N:/web2py/applications/admin/controllers/wizard.py", line 489,
>> in create
>> file=open(meta,'wb')
>> IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'N:\\web2py\\applications
>> \\admin/..\\foobar\\wizard.metadata'
>>
>> Personally, I think this kind of wizard should not be packaged in with
>> web2py at this early stage in web2py's career. I would question how
>> many people would actually use it and whether it would be worth the
>> effort to maintain.
>>
>> I'm not saying it isn't useful for newbies. I am saying that web2py
>> newbies are probably early adopters and less likely to need or use
>> such a wizard. Just my 2 cents.
