[pylucene-dev] how to build a PyLucene egg?

[Andi Vajda]

On Mon, 3 Mar 2008, Bill Janssen wrote:

> So, here's what I'm trying, to build the egg without installing JCC
> (this is OS X only, for the moment).  I'm starting with a PyLucene
> source distribution:

Why are you building the PyLucene egg without installing JCC ?
JCC is installed in a different, separate egg anyway (see your site-packages 
directory). You're just making the PyLucene build harder than it needs to 
be. To run PyLucene, the JCC is _not_ necessary nor is it used. We don't 
distribute it with Chandler either. The JCC runtime code needed by PyLucene 
is linked into the _lucene.so extension already.

>
> #!/bin/csh
>
> echo "building PyLucene egg..."
> cd /tmp
> tar xvfz /prereqs/PyLucene-*.tar.gz
> cd ./PyLucene-*/jcc
> /usr/bin/python setup.py build
> cd ..
> setenv PYTHONPATH ./jcc/build/lib.macosx-10.5-i386-2.5
> make PREFIX_PYTHON=/usr ANT=ant PYTHON=/usr/bin/python JCC="/usr/bin/python ./jcc/build/lib.macosx-10.5-i386-2.5/jcc/__init__.py" NUM_FILES=1 compile
> find ./build -name \*.egg
>
>
> Now, my next question is, given a Mac without setuptools installed on
> it (10.4 with Python 2.3.5), can I install an egg on it somehow
> manually?  Or do I need a different build technique for Tiger?  I
> guess I'll ask this on the Python distutils list.

When you distribute the lucene egg (anywhere), don't forget to distribute 
the lucene.pth file as well. It is responsible for letting Python know that 
the 'lucene' package corresponds to the rather lengthy and complicated 
lucene.......egg directory in site-packages.

I doubt that Python 2.3.5 without setuptools is capable to resolve this but 
I could be wrong. Best it to try it.

Of course, the distutils mailing list might have other ideas...

Andi..