On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:23:44 +1100, Chris Miles <miles.chris@gmail.com> wrote:
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Thanks Jean-Paul, that worked great, with both distutils.core.setup and twisted.python.dist.setup. When I used the latter I didn't need to regenerate the plugin cache, twistd picked up the new command immediately after install. Is this the advantage of twisted.python.dist.setup ?
Not quite. twisted.python.dist is an internal module, not part of Twisted's public API. Notice this line in its docstring: API Stability: Unstable. Don't use it outside of Twisted.
The technique also (mostly) worked using setuptools.setup. twistd picks up the new command, but spits out a UserWarning due to the appearance of the duplicate twisted package within the egg directory.
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/python2.4/site- packages/zope.interface-3.3.0.1-py2.4-macosx-10.3-fat.egg/zope/ __init__.py:3: UserWarning: Module twisted was already imported from / Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/python2.4/site- packages/twisted/__init__.pyc, but /Library/Frameworks/ Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ myproject-0.0.0-py2.4.egg is being added to sys.path import pkg_resources Usage: twistd [options] ...
I'd like to use setuptools, if possible, due to my project's dependencies on other setuptools-managed packages, but I can live without it if it's not fully compatible with Twisted application plugins.
I'm not really sure what the above warning signifies, whether it indicates a real problem, or what would be necessary to fix it if so. I know that setuptools does a number of things which aren't compatible with distutils and the assumptions of Twisted, though. Jean-Paul