[Avocado-devel] avocado doesn't see plugins

[Olav Philipp Henschel]

I've recently asked about this, the command is:
python setup.py develop --user


Olav

On 06-01-2016 15:18, Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues wrote:
> There's a flag to do a user local install instead of system wide,
> which I forgot, but Lukas might remember it.
>
> If you are going to over simplify what was done, yes, we are 'forcing'
> the user to install a pointer for the libraries inside a system wide
> library dir. Now if you use the local install, that will be restricted
> into the user's profile.
>
> I promise this was all done for a good reason. Having plugins
> installed as setuptools entry points is more clear and standard than
> our previous custom method.
>
> Unfortunately, my new job's assignments are leaving me busy, so I have
> limited time to spend with this. I'll try to help by answering and
> delegating tasks, like I just did :)
>
> On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 3:03 PM, Andrei Stepanov <astepano at redhat.com> wrote:
>> Thanks, it helps.
>>
>> Above step definitely breaks system integrity. This is a bit unclear. Why do
>> we install development version into system? Do we have some documentation
>> that brings more light on this? Or some policy? Or.... I understand that
>> Avocado is under active development, but, Is there some advice for Avocado
>> users? What version should we use and develop for?
>>
>> Spice-qe team uses Avocado from git, mainly because there is no RPMs for all
>> OS versions/architectures/releases/betas/alphas/etc that we are interested
>> in.
>>
>> Could you give more information about setup.py step? Do I right understand,
>> that you force us to install avocado into system? Before it NewYear it was
>> possible to use Avocado directly from git repo (make links, all this
>> configs), but not now. Did I miss something?
>>
>> Sorry, if I wrote something wrong.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 5:32 PM, Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues <lookkas at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> Did you do:
>>>
>>> python setup.py install
>>> or
>>> python setup.py develop
>>>
>>> In both the avocado source dir and the plugin dir?
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 2:30 PM, Andrei Stepanov <astepano at redhat.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> Hello
>>>>
>>>> Any clue about :
>>>>
>>>> pip list | grep stevedore
>>>> stevedore (1.10.0)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> # ./scripts/avocado vt-bootstrap --vt-type spice --vt-no-downloads
>>>> --vt-update-config
>>>> usage: avocado [-h] [-v] [--config CONFIG_FILE] {} ...
>>>> avocado: error: argument subcommand: invalid choice: 'vt-bootstrap'
>>>> (choose
>>>> from )
>>>> [root at spice-bkr02 avocado]#
>>>>
>>>> # ./scripts/avocado --help
>>>> usage: avocado [-h] [-v] [--config CONFIG_FILE] {} ...
>>>>
>>>> Avocado Test Runner
>>>>
>>>> optional arguments:
>>>>    -h, --help            show this help message and exit
>>>>    -v, --version         show program's version number and exit
>>>>    --config CONFIG_FILE  Use custom configuration from a file
>>>>
>>>> subcommands:
>>>>    valid subcommands
>>>>
>>>>    {}                    subcommand help
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Lucas
>>
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