[Twisted-Python] TAP howto: doesn't appear to cover installation

exarkun at twistedmatrix.com exarkun at twistedmatrix.com
Sat Aug 4 06:56:14 EDT 2012


On 06:39 am, duncan.mcgreggor at gmail.com wrote:
>On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 7:52 PM, Glyph <glyph at twistedmatrix.com> wrote:
>>
>>Le Aug 3, 2012 à 11:09 AM, Duncan McGreggor 
>><duncan.mcgreggor at gmail.com>
>>a écrit :
>>
>>On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Laurens Van Houtven <_ at lvh.cc> wrote:
>>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I'm reading the tap how to:
>>http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/current/core/howto/tap.html
>>
>>In the conclusion, it says:
>>
>>• Use it from your development environment
>>• Install it correctly and use it in deployment
>>
>>I can get it to work from my development environment, but I can't find
>>anything about installing it. I'm using a fairly run-of-the-mill
>>distribute-powered setup.py. What do I do?
>>
>>
>>Here's an example setup.py:
>>  https://github.com/dreamhost/akanda/blob/master/setup.py
>>
>>Note the packages and package_data parameters.
>>
>>Also, I refresh the plugin cache after setup. This has removed the
>>problem of Twisted not being able to find newly installed plugins.
>>
>>
>>I *think* that this is the following Stack Overflow question:
>>
>>
>>http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7275295/how-do-i-write-a-setup-py- 
>>for-a-twistd-twisted-plugin-that-works-with-setuptools
>
>That's a great link; the main solution solves several problems I had 
>run
>into, but hadn't had the time to explore/debug. Now I know why...

Perhaps we should just add a link to that SO question to the 
documentation, since an actual answer is not likely to be forthcoming in 
the near future.

Jean-Paul
>Thanks!
>
>d
>>
>>There are some issues with the answer there, as noted in the comments, 
>>but
>>something like this needs to be in Twisted's documentation someplace, 
>>as
>>soon as someone can agree what the right way for all the different
>>packaging configurations you can find yourself in is.
>>
>>-glyph
>>
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