Ubuntu Karmic Koala and Python setuptools

kc — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 12:06:46 +0000

This weekend I’ve upgrade my laptop to Ubuntu Karmic Koala. The upgrade was easy and Karmic looks and runs smoother than the previous version. I encountered one small problem with Python setuptools and subversion.

I use Setuptools 0.6c9 to create Python eggs. It happens that the latest Setuptools won’t play well with subversion 1.6 (shipped with Karmic).

When creating an egg with:

python setup.py bdist_egg

I got this error:

subversion unrecognized .svn/entries format

You can fix this by running a patch from the setuptools team, download the most recent patch from the issue page. Find out where setuptools lives in your site-packages and apply the patch. More details here if you’re not familiar with site-packages and applying patches.

Django buildout with Apache mod_python

kc — Mon, 04 May 2009 11:00:40 +0000

Last week I finished a Django project and needed to put the django app behind Apache. During the development in Django we used buildout. Buildout allows you to create a recipe to get the Django framework and dependencies on other python parts. It supports version pinning and allows you to download your dependencies thru pypi eggs or subversion.

If you want try buildout for Django try this how-to.

Buildout is well known in the Zope/Plone world and can be used in both development and production stages. Because a production mod_python/Django setup is a bit different them I’m used to (using Zope behind Apache), I decided to use buildout to generate a Apache virtual host config.

You can follow these these steps on this wiki for a buildout with mod_python:

https://tracpub.yaco.es/djangobuildout/ (warning! just click thru the SSL errors)

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Ubuntu Karmic Koala and Python setuptools

Django buildout with Apache mod_python