Old plugins are incompatible with Ubuntu 13.10

[Francisco Tomé Costa]

I've installed gedit-developer-plugins on a fresh Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Salamander

I've lauched gedit (from the terminal) but when I turn a GDP plugin on (in this case GDP Find) I get the following error:

(gedit:3640): libpeas-WARNING **: Could not find loader 'python' for plugin 'gdpfind'

The same error only shows while turning on GDP plugins, the others work well.

Any solution to make this plugins work again?

[Curtis Hovey (sinzui)]

The old plugin (0.5.15) use the python provided by old gedit (3.6)

You can get the stable plugins (1.1.0) that with with gedit (3.8.3) in saucy at
https://launchpad.net/~sinzui/+archive/ppa

[Francisco Tomé Costa (franciscotomecosta)]

Thanks Curtis, it seems than GDP Format plugin still has a few problems:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/gedit/plugins/gdpformat.py", line 25, in <module>
    from gdp.format import Formatter
  File "/usr/lib/gedit/plugins/gdp/format.py", line 30, in <module>
    from pocketlint.formatdoctest import DoctestReviewer
ImportError: No module named 'pocketlint'

(gedit:11152): libpeas-WARNING **: Error loading plugin 'gdpformat'

[Curtis Hovey (sinzui)]

Do you have python-pocket-lint 1.4.2 installed? I expect you would since the package is in the same PPA, but maybe the packing rules are not clear.
    $ dpkg -s python-pocket-lint
    ...
    Version: 1.4.2+503-0~gdp~saucy1
    ...

Well, I can see that it is a little ambiguous since python-pocket-lint is both py3 and py2. This command can verify that pocket
    $ python3 -m pocketlint.formatcheck --help

[Francisco Tomé Costa (franciscotomecosta)]

yes, I have Version: 1.4.2+503-0~gdp~saucy1

When I run
    $ python3 -m pocketlint.formatcheck --help

I get
    /usr/bin/python3: No module named 'pocketlint'

[Curtis Hovey (sinzui)]

Thank you Francis. I honestly don't know what is wrong. This is certainly a packaging issue. I will strive to fix this in the next few days.

The immediate workaround maybe to copy the pocketlint directory (/usr/share/pyshared/pocketlint) to a subdir in you home dir. then adding that dir to PYTHONPATH.

[Leo Iannacone (l3on)]

Could you please provide an official update for this package in Ubuntu 14.04 ?

[Amanda Bee (amandabee)]

Any update on whent to expect a fix to this? I still can't load any GDP Plugins on gedit 3.8.3 on Ubuntu 13.10:

(gedit:21480): libpeas-WARNING **: Could not find loader 'python' for plugin 'gdpcomplete'

(gedit:21480): libpeas-WARNING **: Could not find loader 'python' for plugin 'gdpfind'

(gedit:21480): libpeas-WARNING **: Could not find loader 'python' for plugin 'gdpformat'

(gedit:21480): libpeas-WARNING **: Could not find loader 'python' for plugin 'gdpbzr'

[Curtis Hovey (sinzui)]

I have not attempted to backport the plugins to saucy. The current plugins in https://launchpad.net/~sinzui/+archive/ppa work fine with saucy.

[autra (autra)]

(sorry for wrong move above)

Curtis, this also affects a fresh install of Ubuntu 14.04, so the problem is not only with possible backports.

It is possible to have new plugins landed in 14.04?

[Bernd Bertschinger (bernd-bertschinger)]

Hey, I recently tried to install the Gedit plugins "GDP Find" and "GDP Format" and none of them works.

I have a freshly installed version of Ubuntu 14.04 . and it seem as if that no new plugins are placed in the repository.

Since almost two month have passed since the last comment I thought I would keep this topic alive.

Bye the way thx for your commitment.

Cheers,

Bernd

[Curtis Hovey (sinzui)]

The GDP plugins were not included in trusty, and it don't believe backports are accepted. The PPA does provide working plugins.

[Dimitrij Mijoski (dimztimz)]

Still not fixed for 16.04. If the package is unusable why isn't removed?

Why the PPA isn't moved to the official repos?