[Distutils] `develop' doesn't appends my package's directory to sys.path

[Phillip J. Eby]

It doesn't sound like you read what I wrote below, or that you did 
any of what I said to do, so I'm not sure what other help I can 
offer.  (Also, your statements about "develop" and "build" are 
mutually inconsistent.)

At 07:32 PM 7/19/2008 +0200, Gustavo Narea wrote:
>Hello, Phillip.
>
>I don't really understand why, but if I don't run "build" my script works.
>
>However I need "develop" because the Ant-like tool runs my test suite on a
>different folder for every svn revision. If I remove "build", I get an import
>error because my modules are not accessible.
>
>Thanks for your help!
>
>Cheers.
>
>On Saturday 19 July 2008 00:27:02 Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> > I would suggest setting DISTUTILS_DEBUG=yes in your environment when
> > running both, and compare the other environment contents.  My guess
> > is that you are either running a different Python executable or have
> > a different HOME -- which might change what setup.cfg is being used,
> > and thus the target install directory.
> >
> > Notice in particular that the run for your wrapper script says that
> > it is already present in easy-install.pth, while the other run does
> > not.  This suggests that the target installation path is different.
> >
> > Personally, however, I don't see the point of your script running
> > "build" or "develop" prior to "test"; running "test" will both do a
> > build and put the package on sys.path for the duration of the test
> > run, so the preceding commands are redundant.  Also, if for some
> > reason you *did* need to run all three in sequence, you could just do
> > "setup.py build develop test" and save a lot of excess overhead and
> > repetition.
> >
> > At 10:07 PM 7/18/2008 +0200, Gustavo Narea wrote:
> > >Hello, everyone.
> > >
> > >I have an script which is supposed to run my test suite periodically, and
> > > the routine is basically this:
> > >  1.- It checkouts my app's source from the repository, and stores it in a
> > >different directory on every checkout.
> > >  2.- It runs setuptools build.
> > >  3.- It runs setuptools develop.
> > >  4.- It runs my test suite (via setuptools unittest).
> > >
> > >But setuptools' develop doesn't append my project's path to sys.path; I
> > > don't know what is going on, but I'm absolutely sure about that. Here is
> > > part of the verbose output of the script (it's actually not an script per
> > > se; I'm
> > >
> > >using an Ant like app, part of the Bitten continuous integration system):
> > > > [DEBUG   ] Executing <function exec_ at 0x83ccdf4> with arguments:
> > > > {'executable': './setup.py', 'args': 'develop'}
> > > > [DEBUG   ] Executing  ['./setup.py', 'develop']
> > >
> > >And because my package is not accessible, its modules are not accessible
> > >
> > >either:
> > > > ImportError: No module named build.lib.animador.config
> > >
> > >Then, from the Python interpreter, I check sys.path and I find that my
> > >package's path is not included. But if I manually run `setup.py develop',
> > > and then open the Python interpreter again, the path is included.
> > >
> > >Here's the output of my script http://paste.turbogears.org/paste/3255 and
> > >here's the full output of `setup.py develop'
> > >http://paste.turbogears.org/paste/3256
> > >
> > >Also, here's my repository
> > > https://svn.gnulinuxmatters.org:81/animador/trunk/ and here you can
> > > browse the source code:
> > >https://tracker.gnulinuxmatters.org/browser/animador/trunk
> > >
> > >I hope someone can help me out; I have spent days trying to fix this.
> > >
> > >Thanks in advance.
> > >--
> > >Gustavo Narea.
> > >General Secretary. GNU/Linux Matters.
> > >http://www.gnulinuxmatters.org/
> > >
> > >
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>
>--
>Gustavo Narea.
>General Secretary. GNU/Linux Matters.
>http://www.gnulinuxmatters.org/
>