tipfy on Google App Engine (GAE) installing extensions

Question

I'm trying to get tipfy working on Google App Engine (GAE). I'm using Windows XP .

The "hello world" example is working fine. What I'm don't understand is how to correctly install extensions.

I'm trying to use the "multi-auth" example without much success.

I'm receiving the following error:

ImportError: No module named wtforms.validators

I've tried installing the extension, as per the documentation , which says to run:

bootstrap.py --distribute

Which returns:

Downloading http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/d/distribute/distribute-0.6.14.tar.gz

Extracting in d:\\temp\\tmp2frf61

Now working in d:\\temp\\tmp2frf61\\distribute-0.6.14

Building a Distribute egg in d:\\temp\\tmpq4-j_v

warning: no files found matching 'Makefile' under directory 'docs'

warning: no files found matching 'indexsidebar.html' under directory 'docs'

d:\\temp\\tmpq4-j_v\\distribute-0.6.14-py2.5.egg

install_dir d:\\temp\\tmpq4-j_v

I then run:

bin/buildout

and get the following:

While: Initializing. Error: Couldn't open D:\\downloads\\tipfy.0.6.3.build\\project\\bin\\buildout.cfg

Because that file doesn't exist in the bin directory, which I'm assuming should have been placed there after I've ran:

bootstrap.py --distribute

Answer 1

You should run bin/buildout from the dir where buildout.cfg is sitting, not from the bin dir. Do something like this

cd D:\downloads\tipfy.0.6.3.build\project
start bin/buildout

Answer 2

bootstrap and buildout problems are caused by broken distribution in version 0.6.3 IMHO. It is better to use all-in-one package.

Another issue is are missing wtforms . I got same problem like you but with gae-auth and I think tipfy-ext-auth also suffers from it. Simply speaking tipfy-ext-auth is updated to work with tipfy 0.7 and you are using 0.6.3.

Version 0.7 is development version and is not released to public yet. So one option is to start using 0.7 directly from hg repository . But be careful: 0.7 is not compatible with 0.6.3.

Another option is to just download wtforms modules from latest version and put them under app/lib directory. I did this for my project and it worked.