explorer causes 'bzr selftest' to abort if PyQt is not installed

[Gordon Tyler]

I'm working on a machine that doesn't have PyQt4 installed in my python site packages. When I try to run bzr selftest using a recently pulled bzr.dev, I get the following:

bzr: ERROR: No module named PyQt4
You may need to install this Python library separately.

I didn't have this problem with a bzr.dev from a few weeks ago. I don't want to have to install PyQt4 in my site packages just to run selftest.

[Gordon Tyler (doxxx)]

And I just realized I had a checkout of bzr-explorer in my user plugins path. Removing that solves the error.

[John A Meinel (jameinel)]

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Gordon Tyler wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> I'm working on a machine that doesn't have PyQt4 installed in my python
> site packages. When I try to run bzr selftest using a recently pulled
> bzr.dev, I get the following:
>
> bzr: ERROR: No module named PyQt4
> You may need to install this Python library separately.
>
> I didn't have this problem with a bzr.dev from a few weeks ago. I don't
> want to have to install PyQt4 in my site packages just to run selftest.
>
> ** Affects: bzr
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
>

Can you check what plugins you have installed? I would guess you have
either bzr-explorer or qbzr installed, and *that* is requesting PyQt4
always, and it is causing the test suite to abort before it gets a
chance to run.

John
=:->

 status: incomplete
 importance: medium

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[John A Meinel (jameinel)]

I think the right thing to do is to check in __init__.py if PyQt4 is available, and if it isn't, return immediately from "load_tests()" and issue a warning rather than an error.