From Django 1.11.1 if django.contrib.gis is imported it will not fail silently if GDAL is not installed. This will make django-dynamic-fixture to trows errors for projects which does not use django.contrib.gis and there is no GDAL isntalled.
from django_dynamic_fixture import G, F
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django_dynamic_fixture/__init__.py", line 10, in <module>
from django_dynamic_fixture.fixture_algorithms.sequential_fixture import SequentialDataFixture, \
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django_dynamic_fixture/fixture_algorithms/sequential_fixture.py", line 12, in <module>
from django.contrib.gis.geos import *
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/contrib/gis/geos/__init__.py", line 5, in <module>
from .collections import ( # NOQA
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/contrib/gis/geos/collections.py", line 11, in <module>
from django.contrib.gis.geos.geometry import GEOSGeometry, LinearGeometryMixin
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/contrib/gis/geos/geometry.py", line 11, in <module>
from django.contrib.gis import gdal
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/contrib/gis/gdal/__init__.py", line 28, in <module>
from django.contrib.gis.gdal.datasource import DataSource
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/contrib/gis/gdal/datasource.py", line 39, in <module>
from django.contrib.gis.gdal.driver import Driver
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/contrib/gis/gdal/driver.py", line 5, in <module>
from django.contrib.gis.gdal.prototypes import ds as vcapi, raster as rcapi
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/contrib/gis/gdal/prototypes/ds.py", line 9, in <module>
from django.contrib.gis.gdal.libgdal import GDAL_VERSION, lgdal
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/contrib/gis/gdal/libgdal.py", line 44, in <module>
'GDAL_LIBRARY_PATH in your settings.' % '", "'.join(lib_names)
GDALException: Could not find the GDAL library (tried "gdal", "GDAL", "gdal1.11.0", "gdal1.10.0", "gdal1.9.0", "gdal1.8.0", "gdal1.7.0"). Try setting GDAL_LIBRARY_PATH in your settings.
From Django 1.11.1 if
django.contrib.gis
is imported it will not fail silently if GDAL is not installed. This will make django-dynamic-fixture to trows errors for projects which does not usedjango.contrib.gis
and there is no GDAL isntalled.