Re: pyblosxom 1.5rc2 released!

I can't get pyblosxom-1.5rc2 to work on Ubuntu 10.04. There seems to be
many ways of installing: pip, setuptools, easy_install, virtualenv, why
so many? And there are two sets of installation instructions, the
INSTALL file in the download the Installing PyBlosxom section in the
PyBlosxom 1.5 Documentation on the website. These two seem to be
slightly different from each other.

I'm just trying to get pyblosxom running so that I can make a blog on my
desktop and preview it with paste. I'll worry about deploying it to a
web server later. I'm going to give up for now and come back to it
another day.

    $ cd ~/src/pyblosxom-1.5rc2
    $ sudo pip install pyblosxom
    Downloading/unpacking pyblosxom
      Running setup.py egg_info for package pyblosxom
        Using setuptools....
        warning: no files found matching '*' under directory 'docs/source'
    Installing collected packages: pyblosxom
      Running setup.py install for pyblosxom
        Using setuptools....
        warning: no files found matching '*' under directory 'docs/source'
        changing mode of /usr/local/bin/pyblosxom-cmd to 755
    Successfully installed pyblosxom
    
    $ pyblosxom-cmd -v
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "/usr/local/bin/pyblosxom-cmd", line 22, in <module>
        from Pyblosxom.commandline import command_line_handler
    ImportError: No module named Pyblosxom.commandline

    $ sudo easy_install pyblosxom
    Searching for pyblosxom
    Best match: pyblosxom 1.5rc2
    Adding pyblosxom 1.5rc2 to easy-install.pth file
    
    Using /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages
    Processing dependencies for pyblosxom
    Finished processing dependencies for pyblosxom

    $ pyblosxom-cmd -v
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "/usr/local/bin/pyblosxom-cmd", line 22, in <module>
        from Pyblosxom.commandline import command_line_handler
    ImportError: No module named Pyblosxom.commandline

    $ sudo python setup.py install
    ... (lots of output)
    $ pyblosxom-cmd -v
    Traceback (most recent call last):
     File "/usr/local/bin/pyblosxom-cmd", line 5, in <module>
       pkg_resources.run_script('pyblosxom==1.5rc2', 'pyblosxom-cmd')
     File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 461, in run_script
       self.require(requires)[0].run_script(script_name, ns)
     File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 1188, in run_script
       raise ResolutionError("No script named %r" % script_name)
    pkg_resources.ResolutionError: No script named 'pyblosxom-cmd'

I also tried the two different sets of instructions for installing with
virtualenv, and neither worked.

I'm stumped! And I have no idea how to clean up my system after all
those botched install commands seem to have left a terrible mess behind.

Now I tried just cd'ing into the pyblosxom-1.5rc2 source directory and
running `bin/pyblosxom-cmd create ./blog` and that worked, but then
`paster serve blog.ini` fails with "ImportError: No module named
Pyblosxom.pyblosxom". I'm not sure whether this is because previous
install commands have made a mess of my system.

<rant>
I hate all these language-specific package managers for Python, Ruby,
Haskell, etc. They're a disaster. There's millions of them, they always
fail, and they can't uninstall! So if you have a failed pyblosxom
install or an install of an old version and you want to try out a new
version, what can you do? You can't uninstall the old one so that you
can be sure you're starting fresh with the new one. You just have to
install the old version over the new one and hope for the best.
</rant>

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