nikola build breaks when trying to build a custom theme from orphan template

[grimlck]

I was trying to build a theme from scratch following the docs. But after copying the orphan theme to the themes folder of the site and calling nikola build it breaks with:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/micha/pythonprojects/.virtualenvs/nikola_temp/bin/nikola", line 57, in <module>
    site = nikola.Nikola(**config)
  File "/Users/micha/pythonprojects/.virtualenvs/nikola_temp/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nikola/nikola.py", line 114, in __init__
    self.config['TRANSLATIONS'])
  File "/Users/micha/pythonprojects/.virtualenvs/nikola_temp/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nikola/utils.py", line 194, in load_messages
    english = __import__('messages_en')
ImportError: No module named messages_en

When copying over the "messages" folder from the "default" theme it build without problems.

[ralsina]

When you copy orphan make sure messages got copied too.

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Micha notifications@github.com escribió:

I was trying to build a theme from scratch following the docs. But after copying the orphan theme to the themes folder of the site and calling nikola build it breaks with:

Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "/Users/micha/pythonprojects/.virtualenvs/nikola_temp/bin/nikola", line 57, in <module>
   site = nikola.Nikola(**config)
 File "/Users/micha/pythonprojects/.virtualenvs/nikola_temp/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nikola/nikola.py", line 114, in __init__
   self.config['TRANSLATIONS'])
 File "/Users/micha/pythonprojects/.virtualenvs/nikola_temp/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nikola/utils.py", line 194, in load_messages
   english = __import__('messages_en')
ImportError: No module named messages_en

When copying over the "messages" folder from the "default" theme it build without problems.

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[grimlck]

Maybe you could add this information to the docs?

[ralsina]

On 01/01/13 12:14, Micha wrote:

Maybe you could add this information to the docs?

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Well, the command used in the docs does this ;-)

But yes, I will be more explicit.

[grimlck]

You mean cp -RL path/to/orphan ? That didn't work for me, because "messages" is not a symlink to "../default/messages" instead it is an ordinary text file. Here the output of ls -lah:

20B  1 Jan 14:02 ../lib/python2.7/site-packages/nikola/data/themes/orphan/messages

[ralsina]

On 01/01/13 13:20, Micha wrote:

You mean /cp -RL path/to/orphan/ ? That didn't work for me, because "messages" is not a symlink to "../default/messages" instead it is an ordinary text file. Here the output of /ls -lah/:

20B 1 Jan 14:02 ../lib/python2.7/site-packages/nikola/data/themes/orphan/messages

That's weird, it is a symbolic link in the repo:

https://github.com/ralsina/nikola/blob/master/nikola/data/themes/orphan/messages

[grimlck]

Hm.. I've installed nikola from the zip archive with pip into a virtualenv. Maybe this constellation causes the issue. When cloning the repo with git clone the symbolic links are left intact.

[ralsina]

Yes, looks like I am going to have to release on tar.gz from now on :-/

[grimlck]

IMHO, you don't need to switch to a tar.gz release. This https://github.com/ralsina/nikola/pull/218 should resolve this issue.