Re: Attempting to build and install latest ETS>3.0.0b1 on Windows XP

Brennan Williams wrote:
> OK, ets co "ETS>3.0.0b" worked with the final messages
>
> All project source has been checked out to "G:\enthought\ETS_3.0.0b1"
>
> THE SOURCE FOR THE FOLLOWING PROJECTS COULD NOT BE LOCATED:
>         configobj       No match found for project specification 
> "configobj" --
> Required by parent project ETSProjectTools
> HINT: Perhaps try again with more "-r" options?
>
> I have configobj 4.4.0 and 4.5.3 installed so not sure why I got that 
> last message.
>   

Because (a) that message is about the *source* for the project, not the 
binaries that you have installed, and (b) even if you had the source on 
your system, the "ets" command is not crawling your disks to find it, it 
*is* looking for the source in the svn repositories it knows about.

> On to building the eggs....
>
> The code.enthought.com/source page has a section called "Building from 
> Source" with a link "Installation from Source" which takes you to
> the https://svn.enthought.com/enthought/wiki/Build page titled 
> "Enthought Installation from Source Home Page"
>
> This page doesn't explicitly help me to work out how to build the eggs 
> as I'm trying to build ETS 3.0.0b1 on WIndows XP. So I clicked on the 
> 2.6.0b1 link for Windows XP which took me to the 
> https://svn.enthought.com/enthought/wiki/Build/ETS_2.6.0b1/Py2.5/Win_XP_i386 
> page
> in which I found a note about how to get egg_builder.py
>
> I think I would have struggled to find this if it wasn't for the fact 
> that I already know I need egg_builder.py as I have an older version.
>   

I think the root of the problem is that we don't have a page of 
instructions on how to build the in-development trunk of ETS (ie ETS 
3.0) anywhere.   We only cover how to build actual releases, such as ETS 
2.6, 2.71, and soon ETS 2.8.0.   It would be great if you would take a 
stab at writing something appropriate on the wiki.    That would 
definitely help others trying to follow in your footsteps.

> I've now run egg_builder.py which has built the eggs and put them into a 
> /dist directory which is as follows...
>
>
> dist:
> total 16929
> a-----    746553 17-Jul-108 23:00 AppTools-3.0.0b1.dev_r19953-py2.5.egg
> a-----   1374782 17-Jul-108 23:01 
> BlockCanvas-3.0.0b1.dev_r19987-py2.5-win32.egg
> a-----    877451 17-Jul-108 23:01 Chaco-3.0.0b1.dev_r20004-py2.5-win32.egg
> a-----    260106 17-Jul-108 23:01 CodeTools-3.0.0b1-py2.5.egg
> a-----    922128 17-Jul-108 23:01 
> DevTools-3.0.0b1.dev_r19998-py2.5-win32.egg
> a-----      1333 17-Jul-108 23:01 ETS-3.0.0b1.dev_r19081-py2.5.egg
> a-----    295462 17-Jul-108 23:01 
> ETSProjectTools-0.4.0a1.dev_r19423-py2.5.egg
> a-----   1726187 17-Jul-108 23:03 Enable-3.0.0b1.dev_r19990-py2.5-win32.egg
> a-----    306404 17-Jul-108 23:03 EnthoughtBase-3.0.0b1.dev_r19978-py2.5.egg
> a-----    193719 17-Jul-108 23:03 EnvisageCore-3.0.0b1.dev_r19974-py2.5.egg
> a-----    208110 17-Jul-108 23:04 
> EnvisagePlugins-3.0.0b1.dev_r19976-py2.5.egg
> a-----   7320674 17-Jul-108 23:05 Mayavi-3.0.0a1.dev_r19985-py2.5-win32.egg
> a-----    298517 17-Jul-108 23:05 SciMath-3.0.0b1.dev_r20002-py2.5-win32.egg
> a-----    753695 17-Jul-108 23:05 Traits-3.0.0b1.dev_r19994-py2.5-win32.egg
> a-----    388252 17-Jul-108 23:05 
> TraitsBackendQt-3.0.0b1.dev_r19483-py2.5.egg
> a-----    711545 17-Jul-108 23:05 
> TraitsBackendWX-3.0.0b1.dev_r19970-py2.5.egg
> a-----    939380 17-Jul-108 23:05 TraitsGUI-3.0.0b1.dev_r19999-py2.5.egg
>
>
> Next I'm going to do a complete clean install of Python 2.5 on another 
> machine and then install the eggs.
>
> I normally use easy_install to install eggs so I'll install Setuptools 
> after installing Python.
>
> So far so good.
>   

Glad to hear you've managed to build the eggs!   Sorry it has been so 
painful to do!

-- Dave