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OpenBlock is a web application and RESTful service that allows users to browse and search their local area for "hyper-local news
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obdemo bin scripts are documented, but don't get installed when installing obdemo non-editable #193

Closed slinkp closed 11 years ago

slinkp commented 11 years ago

If you install obdemo non-editable, you don't get the top-level bin/ scripts, which are referred to in a bunch of docs.

These are mostly bash scripts. There doesn't seem to be a good way for setuptools to install shell scripts; distutils apparently can, but setuptools is too "smart" to do that. Which one is a bug depends on your P.O.V. I guess.

There don't seem to be any good workarounds. We could either:

slinkp commented 11 years ago

Went with option 3 (manage scripts), although I'm thinkig of switching to #2 (python scripts in bin/).

slinkp commented 11 years ago

Ticket imported from Trac: http://developer.openblockproject.org/ticket/200 Reported by: slinkp