easy_install doesn't work

[andresriancho]

I know that the documentation states that django-browserid needs to be installed using pip install but during the development of a tool a friend of mine used easy_install instead; which lead to lots of problems.

The problem with easy_install is that it will install the browserid module as an egg (zip) inside the python directory. Everything works great with the python imports; but when you really want to use the module in a django app it will fail to find the template files (because they are not real files, they are bits inside the zip).

This might be an easy_install or django-browserid problem; I don't really know but you should be aware of it and potentially fix the way you package your software so that both easy_install and pip work as expected.

[Osmose]

Hmmm, I'm no packaging expert, but I would definitely like to see if we can get it to work with easy_install if it isn't too hard to do.

I'm adding this to the 0.9 milestone. Hopefully me or someone else will be able to take a look at this soon. Thanks for the report!

[peterbe]

Will this be solved if we add zip_safe=False to setup()?

[andresriancho]

Would be inclined to answer: yes.

[peterbe]

http://bashelton.com/2009/04/setuptools-tutorial/#advanced_options-zip_safe

[peterbe]

Or you can tell your friend to use easy_install -Z django-browserid

[andresriancho]

Or he can use pip, like the documentation says, but my worry now is not my friend but all the other users who might try to install this package with easy_install. That's why I think it should be fixed upstream (potentially with zip_safe=False)

[peterbe]

See https://github.com/mozilla/django-browserid/pull/164

[Osmose]

This should be fixed by 47b5eb6cb556acd3ae9496ae3229202a66fb4837.