[4suite] Installation problems - 2.0?

[Andy Gimblett]

Hi guys,

Well, here comes a newbie with an installation question... I've
just installed python2.0 from source and everything seems to be
working happily in general - but I can't 4DOM to work. Now, I didn't
get it to work under 1.5.2 either so maybe this is not surprising, but
since 2.0's relatively new I thought I'd ask... Has anyone else
out there installed vs. 2.0 and had problems?

Getting specific...

First let me quote an excerpt from 4DOM.spec, which was the only
source of installation instruction I could find):



%prep
%setup -n xml/dom

%install
install -d -m 755 -o 0 -g 0
/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/xml/dom/ext/reader
install -d -m 755 -o 0 -g 0 /usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/xml/dom/html

python -O -c "import compileall; compileall.compile_dir('.')"

install -m 644 -o 0 -g 0 *.py* /usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/xml/dom
install -m 644 -o 0 -g 0 ext/*.py*
/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/xml/dom/ext
install -m 644 -o 0 -g 0 ext/reader/*.py*
/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/xml/dom/ext/reader
install -m 644 -o 0 -g 0 html/*.py*
/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/xml/dom/html



Now, obviously with a 2.0 installation those paths become something more
like /usr/local/lib/python2.0/site-packages/..., but two questions remain:

1. The 2.0 installation included some XML stuff, but it's installed
   to    /usr/local/lib/python2.0/xml/
   not   /usr/local/lib/python2.0/site-packages/xml

   Should I be putting my 4DOM bits in .../xml/... or
   .../site-packages/xml/... ? (More analysis below)

2. The "prep" section: What is setup? Part of distutils? Should I be
   worried that I have not performed this step?

If I install to .../xml/, and try to run the HTML demo "python
dom_from_html_file.py employee_table.html", I get "ImportError: cannot
import name implementation" when trying to execute "from xml.dom import
implementation" in .../xml/dom/Node.py - and indeed there is no
implementation.py in xml/dom...

If I install to .../site-packages/xml/, it can't import HTMLlib from reader,
even if there are __init__.py's all the way: I presume this is a clash
between
the files in .../xml and .../site-packages/xml?

:( and ?:)

Any/all help/tips/pointing-in-right-direction humbly appreciated!

Thanks in advance,

Andy

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