[Avocado-devel] avocado doesn't see plugins

[Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues]

Well, we already have a walk through in

http://avocado-framework.readthedocs.org/en/latest/GetStartedGuide.html#generic-installation-from-a-git-repository

We could add another section with the local python setup.py  develop
--user command explaining why it's required.

On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 4:26 PM, Andrei Stepanov <astepano at redhat.com> wrote:
> Thank you.
>
> It would be very nice to have in the documentation few words about "python
> setup.py" process. To understand what is going behind this command. Why it
> is necessary. Just for keeping whole clear picture.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 6:30 PM, Olav Philipp Henschel
> <olavph at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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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Lucas