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

[Duncan McGreggor]

On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 3:56 AM, <exarkun at twistedmatrix.com> wrote:

> 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.
>

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