[ckan-dev] pypi releases

[Rufus Pollock]

On 16 September 2011 12:33, David Read <david.read at okfn.org> wrote:
> Have people had any luck with the CKAN releases on PyPI? I'm wondering
> if they are subtly broken and unused...
>
> I've been investigating this a start-up exception:
>  "migrate.versioning.exceptions.InvalidRepositoryError:
> /home/dread/hgroot/test/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ckan/migration"
> which is caused when the ckan/migration/migrate.cfg file is missing.
> It seems that the PyPI releases don't contain this file! It is due to
> a problem with eggs created with sdist (which we use to upload to
> PyPI): http://www.mail-archive.com/distutils-sig@python.org/msg02794.html
>
> This would explain Ewan's difficulty installing CKAN:
> http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/ckan-discuss/2011-June/001359.html
>
> (The solution is to install from Bitbucket rather than PyPI - see the
> docs http://readthedocs.org/docs/ckan/en/ckan-1.4.3/install-from-source.html
> )
>
> @Rufus perhaps you know about this?

No I don't. For other projects I usually try a basic install from PyPI
after doing a release to check it works (though this would not pick up
subtle issues with migrate). If migrate.cfg not included we need to
add it to MANIFEST.in ...

Rufus