[Mailman-Developers] Errors installing Mailman 3.0

[Jessy Kate]

Hi All,

I'm trying to get mailman 3.0 installed in a fresh virtualenv with python
2.6 on ubuntu 10.04. I've sent messages in the irc channel a few times, but
no response there. Is the channel still an active place to get help?

I've stumbled my way successfully through a few errors, but need some help
now. I've been following the instructions at:
http://packages.python.org/mailman/docs/START.html

And using the package at
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/mailman/3.0.0a6

After running bootstrap.py, when i run bin/buildout, i get the following
buildout errors::

Develop: '/home/jessy/src/mailman/mailman-3.0.0a6/.'

While:

  Installing.

  Getting section docs.

  Initializing part docs.

Error: Missing option: buildout:find-links


And then:



>
> Develop: '/home/jessy/src/mailman/mailman-3.0.0a6/.'

While:

  Installing.

  Getting section docs.

  Initializing part docs.

Error: Missing option: buildout:allow-hosts


Both of these were fixed by adding them as empty variables to my
buildout.cfg:

find-links =

allow-hosts =



I then get two zc.buildout recipe errors-- specifically for
z3c.recipe.sphinxdoc, and z3c.recipe.filetemplate. Installed those using
pip, and kept going. But now I get:

(mailman)1219 jessy at moltencore:~/src/mailman/mailman-3.0.0a6$ bin/buildout

Develop: '/home/jessy/src/mailman/mailman-3.0.0a6/.'
While:
  Installing.
  Getting section filetemplates.
  Initializing part filetemplates.

An internal error occured due to a bug in either zc.buildout or in a

recipe being used:

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/zc/buildout/buildout.py", line
1660, in main

    getattr(buildout, command)(args)

  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/zc/buildout/buildout.py", line 416,
in install

    [self[part]['recipe'] for part in install_parts]

  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/zc/buildout/buildout.py", line 964,
in __getitem__

    options._initialize()

  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/zc/buildout/buildout.py", line
1051, in _initialize

    self.recipe = recipe_class(buildout, name, self)

  File
"/development/virtualenv/mailman/lib/python2.6/site-packages/z3c/recipe/filetemplate/__init__.py",
line 63, in __init__

    orig_distributions, ws = eggs.working_set()

  File
"/development/virtualenv/mailman/lib/python2.6/site-packages/zc.recipe.egg-1.3.2-py2.6.egg/zc/recipe/egg/egg.py",
line 101, in working_set

    **kw)

TypeError: install() got an unexpected keyword argument
'include_site_packages'



Not sure if may this has to do with the buildout.cfg variables I added.

Anyway, help/advice on how to move forward would be much appreciated. Thank
you!
Jessy

-- 
Jessy Cowan-Sharp
http://jessykate.com