Unable to run from source (on Windows)

[John A Meinel]

At the moment, you have to fully install wikkid to run it. You cannot trivially checkout the working tree into your plugins folder and have it work. (Run from source.)

The main issues are:
1) plugin info is in '/plugins/__init__.py' I assume this isn't as much of a problem on platforms with symlinks, because you could just point a 'wikkid' symlink to the plugins directory. However, Windows doesn't have symlinks. I've been quite successful with most bzrlib plugins by just doing a lightweight checkout into plugins (which also lets me easily switch it to any branch of the plugin I want to be running right now.)

2) It expects 'wikkid' to be available as a top-level package. I can get around this a bit by using PYTHONPATH, but it doesn't scale particularly well if I want to be able to switch between branches.

I guess the biggest thing is that I *really* want to be able to run from source, so that I can test out any bugfixes without having to go through a whole install, and potentially break an existing (working if buggy) install.

[Tim Penhey (thumper)]

Well... wikkid has an associated bzr plugin, but is not designed to *be* a plugin.

I agree that this is a good goal, and I'm unsure how best to move this forwards.

[Vincent Ladeuil (vila)]

See also bug #599565, not a dupe but same area.