[Python-apps-team] Bug#562963: Trac: wrong plugin names

[anatoly techtonik]

Hello, Martin

Unfortunately. Trac plugins should be packaged as EGGs, because Trac
uses information from EGG distribution to display in web-admin. So far
I haven't found a way to get this information for imported module
installed in a plain directory, i.e. the one that doesn't end with
.egg like.

For example WikiNotification plugin when installed with setuptools,
ends into tracwikinotification-0.2.1-py2.6.egg directory with EGG-INFO
and WikiBotification subdirs. First subdir is used by Trac to display
plugin info (via pkg_resources from setuptools) and the second
contains with actual module code. The path is detected by path to
files of imported module.

In Debian there is Account Manager for example. It is imported from
/usr/share/pyshared/acct_mgr and actual meta information is in
/usr/share/pyshared/TracAccountManager-0.2.1dev.egg-info  So far I
haven't found a way how to link these.

I'll keep you updated.
-- 
anatoly t.



On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 4:38 PM, W. Martin Borgert <debacle at debian.org> wrote:
> Quoting "anatoly techtonik" <techtonik at gmail.com>:
>>
>> Yep. I know that. It is because plugin system in original WebAdmin
>> plugin was designed with eggs in mind (whatever that means). I already
>> have a patch to fix that, but I want to be sure it covers all cases.
>
> Would you mind to send the patch to 562963 at bugs.debian.org, so
> that we can look at it? Even if your solution does not cover all
> cases or has other issues, you are at least one step ahead :~)
>
> The bug report is visible here: http://bugs.debian.org/562963
>
>