System-wide installation doesn't work

[John Beranek]

I:

1. Checked out the latest code from Subversion
2. Made an egg
3. Copied it into the system's site-packages directory
4. Added "wikitopdf.* = enabled" in the [components] section of a projects trac.ini

However, the plugin has not become enabled, and doesn't show in the Admin->Plugins page.

If I copy the egg into the project's 'plugins' directory, it works.

In the failure case there is nothing relevant in the trac.log file.

If I copy the egg file into the project's plugins directory, the trac.log file shows the plugin being loaded from the _system_ directory:

2010-04-26 14:59:33,832 Trac[loader] DEBUG: Loading wikitopdf.web_ui from /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/TracWikiToPdfPlugin-2.3.1-py2.4.egg

What's going on!?

[nathan r. hruby]

This appears to be caused by the lack of an __init__.py file in the wikitopdf module. You can maually add an empty one in the source directory and then reissue the build and install steps and it should work.

[Ryan J Ollos]

(In [9779]) Added __init__.py file to fix install failure. Removed requirement for htmldoc from setup.py since an install failed even when the package was installed system-wide. Fixes #7028.

[Ryan J Ollos]

(In [9780]) Applied fix from [9779] to 0.10 branch. Renamed context conversion link from WikiToPdf -> PDF. Refs #7028.

[John Beranek]

Hmm, doesn't seem to fix it for me. I generated an __init__.py within wikitopdf, remade the egg, and I still get the same behaviour...

[Ryan J Ollos]

Try deleting the file /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/TracWikiToPdfPlugin-2.3.1-py2.4.egg and see if it then loads the egg from the TRACENV directory.

[Ryan J Ollos]

Okay, sorry, I misundestood your issue, so my last comment won't make any sense. Let me test out the system-wide installation. I always do an installation to the TRACENV directory.

[Ryan J Ollos]

Try: python setup.py install, and I think it will work for you. Please reopen if you continue to have issues. You may also want to read ​t:TracPlugins, for the different installation options. I think this is purely an install issue at this point.