Can't install via pip

[tiktuk]

Doing pip install website-pollerI get this error message:

IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/Users/myusername/python/lib/build/website-poller/setup.py'

[bebraw]

Thanks for reporting! I'll look into this. :)

[bebraw]

I think I figured it out. Pip won't work with binary distributions. I simply bumped up the version and made sure only source distribution is available.

@tiktuk: Could you please give it a go now? :)

[tiktuk]

I think it works now. In fact it fails but it is because - as I found out in the meantime - my version of Growl does not support GNTP :-( . So it failed connecting to Growl. Unfortunately I am on Snow Leopard and can't upgrade so I can't use your program right now.

Thanks for looking into the issue so quickly though.

[bebraw]

Alright. If you can find a library that works with your version of Growl, let me know and I'll plug it in.

[bebraw]

@tiktuk Does growlnotify work for you? If so, I think we could use that.

[tiktuk]

Yes, I think it is the same as this: https://github.com/ptone/pygrowl, and I used that once. I just tested and it works perfectly. Here is some sample code:

from Growl import GrowlNotifier, Image

message = 'Hi'
icon_image_path = '' # Path to image file

icon = Image.imageFromPath(icon_image_path)
g = GrowlNotifier(applicationName='APP_NAME', notifications=['NOTIFICATION_NAME'], applicationIcon=icon)
g.register()
g.notify('NOTIFICATION_NAME', 'Notification', message, sticky=True)

Would be great if you also support this :-) .

[bebraw]

@tiktuk I made version 0.5.4 support growlnotify. Instead of using the lib I ended up just calling it via terminal. Easier this way. Hopefully it works for you now! :)

[tiktuk]

Thanks, it works!

Could be great if a warning message is printed if growlnotify is not found, though.

It's great that you can support all versions of OS X using growlnotify. The good thing about using the python libraries is that they work with just Growl installed, though. I had to download the Growl disk image again to get the growlnotify installer. The libraries are easier to get, they are just a pip install away. And I guess their installation could even be automated in your setup.py. That's nitpicking though, thanks for your work!

[bebraw]

@tiktuk Good point! I'll add an issue for that so I won't forget. Might resolve that one later.

The reason why I didn't drop pygrowl there had to do with the fact that it comes with a C extension (not quite sure how to deal with that). The version at PyPI is somewhat old too. Better yet OS X 10.8 came with a new notification system altogether. What a mess. :)

I guess the ideal solution for this would be to fork pygrowl and host it at PyPI. It's a shame gntp doesn't work with the old version.

Let me know if you get any further ideas. Just opening an issue will do. :)

[tiktuk]

Yeah, it's a bit of a mess..

I created issue #8 to discuss this more.