Now we use "./setup.py develop" to ensure that changes to our source code are immediately used without requiring a "make" step. This simplification will hopefully pave the way for easier py2exe and py2app, solving the "Unit tests test the installed version" bug (#145), and perhaps also #164 and #176.
This patch also conditionalizes the use of setuptools_darcs on the absence of a PKG-INFO file, which is part of fixing #263.
since the installer upload got more complex (needing to chmod files before
rsyncing) I promoted it to a makefile target, simplifying the buildbot steps
involved
this resolves problems of py2exe's modulefinder collection of sources from
.zipped egg files, not by using easy_install to reach the --always-unzip
option, but rather with a small tool which unpacks any zipped egg files found
in misc/dependencies. this fixes the py2exe build given rollback of the
easy_install stuff which had broken the unix builds. misc/hatch-eggs.py
performs the honours.
this also includes a misc/sub-ver.py tool which substitutes elements of the
verion number for the current code base (by importing allmydata.__version__
hence make-version should be run first, and the python path carefully managed)
into template files using python's string interpolation of named args from a
dict as the templating syntax. i.e. %(major)d %(minor)d %(point)d %(nano)d
each expand to the individual components of the version number as codified
by the pyutil.version_class.Version class. there is also a %(build)s tag
which expands to the string form of the whole version number. This tool is
used to interpolate the automatically generated version information into the
innosetup source file in a form consistent with innosetup/windows' restrictions
add 'windows-installer' target to top level makefile to build a windows setup.exe package
using innosetup. this assumes innosetup 5 is installed in program files as normal.
this doesn't include any logic to manage version numbers at this point, it's just a
simple experiment to test out building an installer as yet.
because I don't fully understand the former, I suspect it of being implicated in the current buildslave redness, and we require --always-unzip solely for py2exe.
py2exe is unable to handle .eggs which are packaged as zip files
in preference it will pull in other versions of libraries if they
can be found in the environment.
this changes causes .eggs to be built as .egg directories, which
py2exe can handle.
These changes are a work-in-progress -- there are many incomplete and incorrect parts, but the install.html and running.html files
are complete and should work (and they are delightfully concise!). I'm pushing this just to let people see incremental progress
and to solicit feedback. "Testing out" the install.html and running.html files and submitting patches or bug reports would be
quite welcome.
More to come.
misc/make-version.py has a limitation which prevents it from generating version
stamps from our current darcs history. This limitation has been fixed in
pyutil's "darcsver". Rather than copy the fix from there to
misc/make-version.py, I'm making it so that you have to install pyutil if you
want to automatically generate _version.py files from the current darcs
history.
I don't know what will happen if the path ends up with something like
"C:\Programs and Files\Whatever\;" on Windows, and then that gets passed to
cygwin bash. This reminds me of Brian's suggestion to use Python helper
scripts (c.f. misc/find-dep-eggs.py) instead of writing this stuff in the
GNUmake language. And *that* reminds me of the idea of writing the whole damn
thing in Python instead of in GNUmake, i.e. make all of our build tools be
plugins for setuptools instead of being GNUmake targets.
