gwibber/microblog/util/log.py fails if ~/.cache isn't already present

[Tom "spot" Callaway]

With a brand new user on a Fedora 12 system, gwibber fails to start:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/gwibber", line 47, in <module>
    from gwibber.microblog.util import log
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/gwibber/microblog/util/__init__.py",
line 3, in <module>
    import log
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/gwibber/microblog/util/log.py", line
9, in <module>
    mkdir(cache_dir)
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/test/.cache/gwibber'

The reason is this:

 cache_dir = realpath(join(xdg.BaseDirectory.xdg_cache_home, "gwibber"))
 if not isdir(cache_dir):
  mkdir(cache_dir)

The problem here is that this python code is trying to do the equivalent of:

# mkdir ~/.cache/gwibber

...when ~/.cache/ doesn't exist. You'd want to run mkdir -p in that instance,
which is os.makedirs() in python.

Attached is a patch which resolves this issue.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

marking fixed since there is a branch linked that was merged.