Re: [Plone-developers] easy_install i18ndude is dangerous now

[Florian S. <flo...@gm...>]

On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 15:39:03 +0200, Reinout van Rees  =

<rei...@gm...> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I noticed I had not installed i18ndude yet (I wiped my laptop and
> started afresh). So I did a "sudo easy_install-2.4 i18ndude", as
> easy_installing it is the way to get that program since plone 2.5.
>
> Well, ahem, "AttributeError: 'dict' object has no attribute 'mapping'"=

> and so right once I start up a zope 2.9.7 instance afterwards. As
> i18ndude now automatically grabs the whole zope3.4 machinery right
> into site-packages...
>
> Grabbing an older i18ndude (" sudo easy_install-2.4 -N
> http://cheeseshop.python.org/packages/2.4/i/i18ndude/i18ndude-2.1.1-py=
2.4.egg")
> *does* work. After you scraped the site-packages directory clean of
> the whole zope3 egg stuff, of course.
>
> Is there an easy way to prevent things like this? Having your zope in
> a workingenv doesn't seem to protect you from the site-wide site-
> packages. And how could you distribute a program like i18ndude in a
> way that's friendly to the rest of the python-using programs?

Workingenv works well. I use it all the time now.

<http://plone.org/documentation/how-to/zope-python-packages-using-easy_i=
nstall/?searchterm=3Dworkingenv>

Regards,
Florian Schulze