[Pythoncard-users] Re: Item missing from PythonCard 0.8 install?

[Kevin A. <al...@se...>]

Thanks for catching this Jim!

Once again I failed to respect the authority of distutils and ended up  
getting slapped. I updated the setup.py script but forgot to update the  
MANIFEST.in file, and I didn't include a sub-package as well, so the  
templates and templates.dialogs package was missing.

I guess at this point simply getting verification that anyone is able  
to install and run everything correctly on each platform would be good  
just to make sure I haven't blown anything else. One thing that I will  
mention is that on the Mac (and probably Linux) it is critical that you  
use sudo to install the package, otherwise distutils doesn't copy all  
the files for some reason. This is mentioned in the install  
instructions, but it is worth repeating.

I went ahead and uploaded new versions of all three files to  
SourceForge, but didn't change the version number. Here are the new  
file sizes:

PythonCard-0.8.zip - 1,361,078 bytes
PythonCard-0.8.tar.gz - 1,127,311 bytes
PythonCard-0.8.win32.exe - 1,636,223 bytes

There is one other bit of weirdness on the Mac that I don't really  
understand since I don't remember distutils doing this before. It is  
copying all the package files to /Library/Python2.3/PythonCard and then  
creating a build directory with lib/PythonCard and scripts-2.3 dirs  
inside that. Does Linux do that too? Perhaps I need to revise the  
commands I run and/or setup.py script, but this is clearly wrong,  
though harmless, except for burning additional disk space. Did I  
mention that distutils is my nemesis? ;-)

Finally, on the Mac I guess I'm going to update the Panther install  
instructions to refer to the much shorter /Library/Python/2.3/ rather  
than  
/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/python2.3/ 
site-packages/ since they are the same thing.

ka
On Aug 18, 2004, at 2:51 PM, Jim Harrison wrote:

> Kevin-
>
> I just downloaded and tried to install PythonCard 0.8. I'm running  
> Panther
> (10.3.5) and already have the MacPython extras and wxPython 2.5.2.7
> installed.
>
> There may be something left out of the PythonCard install package.  
> When I
> run the setup script, it throws an error during a call to makeDataDirs  
> (see
> below). It appears that the setup script is looking for a templates  
> folder
> as indicated in the function definition (line 70)--
>
> def makeDataDirs(rootDir=APPLICATION_NAME, dataDirs=['.',
> 'docs','samples','templates', 'tools'])
>
> The decompressed PythonCard folder contains the docs, samples and tools
> folders, but not a templates folder so it seems to choke when it tries  
> to
> recursively list the contents of that folder:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "setup.py", line 100, in ?
>     data_files=makeDataDirs(),
>   File "setup.py", line 70, in makeDataDirs
>     directories=recurseDir(directory)
>   File "setup.py", line 57, in recurseDir
>     for fyle in os.listdir(startDir):
> OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'templates'
>
> Should I
> 1) delete 'templates' from the list in the function definition,
> 2) make an empty templates folder in the PythonCard folder, or
> 3) shut up and wait for the tasty templates?
>
> Jim Harrison
> Univ. of Pittsburgh
>