Re: [weewx-development] Re: Driver Installation in Version 5

[Joel Bion]

I seriously think there is a formal case study that needs to be written about the challenges of moving WeeWX to the current Python installation model.  There’s a lesson here for not just the Python developers but others about the difficulty of this transition, because the way WeeWX did things (all things under /home/weewx) was not unreasonable but what has been required to migrate, and the need to support custom package managers, etc…. I just think that this information is useful. Sent from my iPhone On Nov 26, 2023, at 11:33 AM, Tom Keffer <tkef...@gmail.com> wrote:  /etc/weewx/bin is added to the Python path dynamically when weewxd is started up. However, because it is added to the end of the path, the interpreter will find the version in /usr/share/weewx first. So, why not add it to the beginning of the Python path? Because that causes problems for legacy setup.py installs. In this case, the interpreter will find the code in /home/weewx/bin first, which is the old V4.10 code. The V5 code is under ~/weewx-venv. In summary, there's no good solution except to warn users. -tk On Sun, Nov 26, 2023 at 9:15 AM Karen K <kk4468...@gmail.com> wrote: Tom Keffer schrieb am Sonntag, 26. November 2023 um 13:50:23 UTC+1: This issue is already known (always read the Upgrade Guide!). See https://weewx.com/docs/5.0/upgrade/#new-location-for-user-directory This is a slightly other problem here. I did a new clean install, no upgrade. My problem was, that the old directory /usr/share/weewx/user still exists and Python looks for modules there only.  So the extensions were installed to /etc/weewx/bin/user, but Python did not look for them there.  -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-development" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to weewx-development+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-development/35032165-08d5-4415-8e9d-d2996ce8ca84n%40googlegroups.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-development" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to weewx-development+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-development/CAPq0zEAtRxWk2JG7OYC_ontEnv-fFLLdXGUr2KDzf_nyv24XaQ%40mail.gmail.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-development" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to weewx-development+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-development/465F0790-7F7E-40CD-8A24-8F47DD7DC0BB%40gmail.com.