Locale data not included in egg when installing using easy_install

[Ryan J Ollos]

I was investigating the issue reported in ​SO:24019549, and encountered a problem with the locale data not being included in the egg.

The problem is demonstrated in the following:

$ mkdir trac
$ cd trac
$ virtualenv . > /dev/null
$ . bin/activate
$ easy_install babel==0.9.6 > /dev/null
$ easy_install -v trac > trac_easy_install.log
$ ls -d lib/python2.7/site-packages/Trac-1.0.1-py2.7.egg/trac
lib/python2.7/site-packages/Trac-1.0.1-py2.7.egg/trac
$ ls -d lib/python2.7/site-packages/Trac-1.0.1-py2.7.egg/trac/locale
ls: cannot access lib/python2.7/site-packages/Trac-1.0.1-py2.7.egg/trac/locale: No such file or directory

What I see in trac_easy_install.log​ is:

• The catalogs are being compiled.
• The locale data is not being copied into the build directory.

Package versions (Ubuntu 13.04):

$ python --version
Python 2.7.4
$ easy_install --version
distribute 0.6.34
$ virtualenv --version
1.9.1
$ pip --version
pip 1.3.1 from /home/user/Workspace/trac/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip-1.3.1-py2.7.egg (python 2.7)

I've had success using pip though:

$ mkdir trac
$ cd trac
$ virtualenv . > /dev/null
$ . bin/activate
$ easy_install babel==0.9.6 > /dev/null
$ pip install trac > trac_pip_install.log
$ $ ls -d lib/python2.7/site-packages/trac/locale
lib/python2.7/site-packages/trac/locale