[Qgis-developer] setPkgDataPath issue

[Sandro Santilli]

Also, Larry, not everyone is on IRC, could you explain here
again why setPkgDataPath is needed ?

--strk;

On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 10:28:54AM +0200, Sandro Santilli wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 02:14:46AM -0600, Larry Shaffer wrote:
> > Hi strk,
> > 
> > On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 1:22 AM, Sandro Santilli <strk at keybit.net> wrote:
> > > Larry, I commented out the setPkgDataPath line because with
> > > that load of GdalTools plugin out of output/python/plugin path
> > > fails with this message:
> > >
> > >  Traceback (most recent call last):
> > >    File "/usr/src/qgis/Quantum-GIS/b/output/python/qgis/utils.py", line 188, in startPlugin
> > >      plugins[packageName] = package.classFactory(iface)
> > >    File "/usr/src/qgis/Quantum-GIS/python/plugins/fTools/__init__.py", line 53, in classFactory
> > >
> > > which seems to mean that the startPlugin function, loaded from output dir,
> > > finds the __init__.py file in the _source_ dir rather than finding the one
> > > in output dir.
> > >
> > > The same kind of error happens with _all_ the plugins, not only GdalTools.
> > 
> > In addition to what we discussed on irc, i.e. why that setPkgDataPath
> > call should stay as is, it sounds more like an issue with sys.path. If
> > the interpreter is finding modules in the source directory before
> > output, maybe prepend the staged output dir to sys.path, so it is
> > always searched before the source dir.
> 
> I checked sys.path and it does NOT contain the source dir at all.
> 
> Did you try to load python plugins from output/bin/qgis ?
> With and without the setPkgDataPath ?
> Because with the call they don't load, without they load.
> 
> The same applies with the console, too:
> https://github.com/qgis/Quantum-GIS/pull/299

> 
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