[Chandler-dev] Feeds parcel is now a plugin egg - please "make purge"

[Mike Taylor]

PJE and myself have fixed the various coordination issues

On Apr 12, 2006, at 4:29 PM, Brian Kirsch wrote:

> Hi pje,
> This is great stuff!
>
> However, when I run make after downloading the feed parcel plugin I  
> get a 404 error.
>
> curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404
> make: *** [../downloads//Chandler_FeedsPlugin-0.1-py2.4.egg] Error 22
> --Brian
>
> Brian Kirsch -  Cosmo Developer / Chandler Internationalization  
> Engineer
> Open Source Applications Foundation
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> San Francisco, CA 94105
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>
>
>
> Phillip J. Eby wrote:
>
>> I've now ported the feeds parcel to a plugin project (under  
>> projects/Chandler-FeedsPlugin), using the approach described here:
>>
>> http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/chandler-dev/2006-March/ 
>> 005552.html
>>
>> If you're going to work on the feeds parcel, please see the  
>> README.txt I've included in that directory, and let me know if you  
>> have any questions.
>>
>> If anybody wants to experiment with porting other plugin parcels to  
>> the new project format, feel free to use the existing projects as  
>> examples.
>>
>> In the case of the feeds parcel, no code changes were necessary; I  
>> simply did the following (from the 'chandler' directory):
>>
>>    mkdir projects/Chandler-FeedsPlugin
>>    svn mv parcels/feeds projects/Chandler-FeedsPlugin
>>
>>    cd projects/Chandler-FeedsPlugin
>>    cp ../Chandler-HelloWorldPlugin/setup.py .
>>    cp ../Chandler-HelloWorldPlugin/README.txt .
>>
>> And then I edited the setup.py, focusing mainly on things like the  
>> description, project name/version number, specifying the test  
>> package, and updating the "entry points" list to include the feeds  
>> parcel.  You can compare the two existing plugins' setup.py files to  
>> get an idea of what things to change, and these two documentation  
>> links provide additional background on the options you can specify in  
>> a setup script:
>>
>> http://python.org/doc/2.4.1/dist/setup-script.html
>>
>> http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/setuptools#new-and-changed- 
>> setup-keywords
>>
>> Once this was done, I ran the plugin's unit tests using:
>>
>>     RunPython setup.py test
>>
>> Since I'd set the test_suite to 'feeds.tests', this ran the plugin's  
>> unit tests.  Or rather, it tried and failed, because 'feeds/tests'  
>> wasn't actually a package for some reason.  So I added an  
>> __init__.py:
>>
>>     touch feeds/tests/__init__.py
>>     RunPython setup.py test
>>
>> and reran the tests, which then passed.
>>
>> I then installed the plugin in development mode, so I could run  
>> Chandler with it, and fix any bugs without having to build and  
>> install an .egg file:
>>
>>     RunPython setup.py develop
>>     cd ../..
>>     ./chandler.exe --create
>>
>> Everything seemed to be working okay, so I edited the  
>> chandler/Makefile to add the plugin to the BUNDLED_PLUGINS and  
>> BUILD_PLUGINS variables.  Then I ran:
>>
>>     make binaries-Chandler-FeedsPlugin
>>     make install
>>
>> Which builds a .egg file in the ../downloads directory, and then  
>> installs it.
>>
>> Minus the time I spent running tests and fixing a minor Makefile  
>> issue, the total port time was a matter of minutes.  Of course, I've  
>> done a lot of work with setup scripts before, so it might take other  
>> folks a little bit longer to do one.  Still, the plugin setup scripts  
>> are only 15 lines long, and you'll edit only maybe 7 or 8 of those,  
>> mostly to change the names for your project.
>>
>> Finally, I checked in my changes...  and broke the build because the  
>> .egg file has to be manually approved to get to the download  
>> directory.  Oops.  Bear and I are now discussing how to deal with  
>> that issue, but for now, be sure to check with him before checking in  
>> a new plugin project (or new version of an existing one), so that the  
>> changed egg(s) will get staged correctly.
>>
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