[okfn-help] Beta testing new datapkg release

Thu Oct 14 09:38:12 BST 2010

On 14 October 2010 06:25, Mike Chelen <mike at opensci.info> wrote:
> For some reason this time virtuaenv worked quite nicely :)
> http://pastebin.com/knxxWHxg

Great.

> Had problems trying to install system wide, though this might be an issue
> with my system:
> http://pastebin.com/e2bE8Czu

Yes, looks like you are missing
"http://pypi.python.org/pypi/distribute" which is odd since that isn't
required by python or by datapkg!

> Since this is working I'm happy, would testing PIP be useful as well?

Yes, very useful. (One day -- very soon -- i'm going to automate this
process with a script so you can just run it automatically!)

Rufus

> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 2:59 PM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> On 13 October 2010 12:24, Mike Chelen <mike at opensci.info> wrote:
>> > Datapkg 0.7a seems to get installed with easy_install, even when using
>> > virtuaenv. It would be nice if it worked though.
>>
>> Weird, for me using virtualenv and easy:
>>
>> $ easy_install datapkg
>> Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/datapkg/
>> Reading http://www.okfn.org/datapkg
>> Reading http://www.okfn.org/
>> Best match: datapkg 0.7b
>> Downloading
>> http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/d/datapkg/datapkg-0.7b.tar.gz#md5=de33ec9be74d22cd5c320418f2a2426c
>> Processing datapkg-0.7b.tar.gz
>>
>> However easy_install then barfs with (i tested with pip!):
>>
>>    return self._version
>> ValueError: ("Missing 'Version:' header and/or PKG-INFO file",
>> urlgrabber [unknown version]
>>
>> (/tmp/easy_install-LjW1Et/datapkg-0.7b/temp/easy_install-xBr9_U/urlgrabber-3.1.0/temp/easy_install-uYliSd/urlgrabber-3.1.0))
>>
>> Anyways feedback very useful!
>>
>> Rufus
>>
>> > On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 7:09 AM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>
>> > wrote:
>> >> Much appreciated Mike.
>> >>
>> >> I think trying to *not* use mercurial would be good as that is what
>> >> most people do (though it makes it harder to submit patches if we do
>> >> find a problem).
>> >>
>> >> Perhaps:
>> >>
>> >> virtualenv {datapkg-venv}
>> >> . datapkg-venv/bin/activate
>> >> easy_install datapkg
>> >>
>> >> and then if you have problems and need to install from mercurial you
>> >> can always do so later.
>> >>
>> >> Rufus
>> >>
>> >> On 13 October 2010 12:04, Mike Chelen <mike at opensci.info> wrote:
>> >>> Hi Rufus,
>> >>> This release looks great, very exciting! Going to test the new
>> >>> features now. Is it helpful to test easy_install method again, or
>> >>> stick with mercurial and virtualenv?
>> >>> Cheers,
>> >>> -Mike
>> >>>
>> >>> On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 8:09 AM, Rufus Pollock
>> >>> <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
>> >>>> Dear Mike,
>> >>>>
>> >>>> I know you were one of the earlier users of datapkg. I've just put
>> >>>> out
>> >>>> a new release (0.7) with lots of new features and wondered if you'd
>> >>>> give it a testdrive and report any problems you find?
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Release: <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/datapkg>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Docs: <http://packages.python.org/datapkg/>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Rufus
>> >>>> --
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>> >>>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
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