Can't build the blog on virgin platforms

[sinewalker]

Something about the way Zen-IPython works (see #2) and being based off of Nikola 5 is preventing Nikola from running with conf.py set the way it is. It crashes with a Python stack trace on Nikola 7/Python 3.

• Need to review my settings and get them to work on a bare init of nikola
• Need to review how to create a new Nikola Python virtual env from scratch

There's some detail about setting up openSUSE for use with Python3, Virtualenv and Nikola for my hax-vm project in the Nikola vagrant provisioning script. This should be separated out to a script that builds the virtualenv (in a manner like activate from my dotfiles) after installing the python libraries in an OS-dependent fashion, as shown in the vagrant example.

[sinewalker]

I still need to work this out even if I get a Travis CI setup working, because

1. I want to
2. It's good to have a build environment to fall back on if there are issues with Travis CI (or whatever) in the future.

The trick here will be to have it worked out, and documented, in such a way that if I "abandon" the traditional CLI build for a time, it won't bitrot.

[sinewalker]

I belive my instructions in the wiki to be actually useful now. I have tested them:

• on Mac OS X
• on a vagrant VM of openSUSE Leap

I know I've said it before, but I believe this is now repeatable.