Comment 0 for bug 499712

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Philip Peitsch (philip-peitsch) wrote :

There is a missing import sys command in the setup.py. This means that if an install is attempted with the setup.py, the resulting error is actually thrown by missing the sys.exit() command, rather than just notifying that the config cannot be found.

The output of the incorrect version is:
~$ python setup.py install
running install
ERROR: Can't find demoproject/demoprojectconfig.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "setup.py", line 92, in <module>
    cmdclass={'install': InstallAndUpdateDataDirectory}
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/DistUtilsExtra/auto.py", line 92, in setup
    distutils.core.setup(**attrs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/distutils/core.py", line 152, in setup
    dist.run_commands()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/distutils/dist.py", line 975, in run_commands
    self.run_command(cmd)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/distutils/dist.py", line 995, in run_command
    cmd_obj.run()
  File "setup.py", line 72, in run
    previous_value = update_data_path(self.prefix + '/share/demoproject/')
  File "setup.py", line 43, in update_data_path
    sys.exit(1)

With the fix in place, the behaviour becomes
~$ python setup.py install
running install
ERROR: Can't find demoproject/demoprojectconfig.py

The fix is rather straightforward, being to import the sys module in the setup.py file.