Hardcoded dependency: PyBreeder

[kaeff]

After cloning and setting up the project according to the Readme, attemts to running ./mp fail like so:

➜  Mailpile git:(master) ✗ ./mp -www
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./mp", line 3, in <module>
    from mailpile.app import Main
ImportError: No module named mailpile.app

I asumme this happens due to a hardcoded dependency to the PyBreeder project:

$ ls -l scripts/
breeder.py@ -> ../../Beanstalks/PyBreeder/breeder.py

Would it maybe be useful to indirect this dependency using more maintainable mechanisms like e.g. git submodules?

[ei8fdb]

I had the same issue. However I have not been able to fix this as my python knowledge is not up to speed.

Any assistance?
Thanks,
Bernard

[danx0r]

The README does explain it (tersely, see line 40) -- you have to set PYTHONPATH in your shell. In bash, do this:

export PYTHONPATH=/home/username/mailpilefolder

obviously replace the string with your appropriate username and path to mailpile.

This can probably be fixed with some Python jimmying, I may look at that.

[danx0r]

I've fixed this on my fork: danx0r@e8efe5e

You can do a pull and merge this patch until it (hopefully) gets incorporated into the project.

FWIW breeder.py is not the issue, it was a general problem with importing modules from a local path. Not sure why that breeder link is there, it gets created by the makefile but AFAICT is never used (if you do make dev as instructed).