[Twisted-Python] Re: Twisted Trial
Steve Holden
steve at holdenweb.com
Fri Jun 20 15:50:41 MDT 2008
Jake b wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 3:48 AM, Torsten A. <c2k_list at gmx.de
> <mailto:c2k_list at gmx.de>> wrote:
>
> Thank you all for your replies.
>
> @Christian:
> I should have mentioned that. The current directory is in the
> pythonpath. In
> the variable PYHTONPATH the dot is set and when I walk through the
> filesystem, starting python from different locations, the current
> path is
> always set in sys.path. Hence, I asssume that PythonPath is set
> correctly.
> So your suggestion, what I thought would work
> > cd \original_project
> > trial package_to_test
> >
> > cd \modified_project
> > trial package_to_test
> does actually not work. Who knows why...
>
> I'm guessing this is abnormal behavior that's on WinXP only? I on winXP
> have tried setting multiple environment variables to include a project
> path, but imports did not work. The only way I could add a path to
> python's import paths on winXP was to edit the registry.
>
> If PYTHONPATH being set in windowsXP doesn't seem to have any effect
> (Like it doesn't seem to work for me ) the only fix I found was a
> registry edit. At the path:
> HKLM\SOFTWARE\Python\PythonCore\2.5\PythonPath create a new key, ie:
> 'project1', create a new value, name=(Default),
> value='c:\data\path\to\project'
>
PYTHONPATH works just fine under XP. You need to either set it globally
(in the System Properties|Advanced|Environment variables) or use a "set"
statement from the command line in a specific session. And don't forget
the list should be semicolon separated under Windows.
>
> I have never really used a version control system I have to admit. I
> thought
> of control systems to log changes which can in case of severe damage
> or what
> ever reason be made undone. But if I can execute different versions
> of the
> project, e.g. in my case the initial version and the last modified,
> just by
> saying run this one or that one, I am glad to use it. Can this be done
> (excuse my probably dumb question)? Can someone please give me
> catchword to
> search for? As I looked briefly in the bazaar guide
> (http://doc.bazaar-vcs.org/bzr.dev/en/user-guide/index.html) I
> wasn't able
> to find anything helpful.
>
> ( I don't know much about version control, it's something I'm looking
> into. ) A term to search, maybe you're looking for is 'clone' or 'branch'.
>
> If you meant to search for differnt code versioning programs, here's
> some: Mercurial ( http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/ ), Subversion (
> http://subversion.tigris.org/ ), TortoiseSVN ( http://tortoisesvn.net/ )
>
Subversion might be a friendly place to start. Good documentation anyway!
regards
Steve
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