Changes between Version 21 and Version 22 of TracPlugins

Timestamp:

Mar 17, 2006, 8:32:55 PM (18 years ago)

Author:

Matthew Good

Comment:

clarify global installation with egg vs. setup.py

TracPlugins

@@ -34 +34 @@
 
 === For All Projects ===
+==== With a .egg file ====
+Some plugins (such as [http://projects.edgewall.com/trac/wiki/WebAdmin WebAdmin]) are downloadable as a `.egg` file which can be installed with the `easy_install` program:
+{{{
+easy_install TracWebAdmin-0.1.1dev_r2765-py2.3.egg
+}}}
 
-Plugins that you want to use in all your projects (such as [http://projects.edgewall.com/trac/wiki/WebAdmin WebAdmin]) can be installed globally by running:
+If `easy_install` is not on your system see the Requirements section above to install it.  Windows users will need to add "C:\Python23\Scripts" to their `PATH` environment variable (see [http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/EasyInstall#windows-notes easy_install Windows notes] for more information.
+
+==== From source ====
+If you downloaded the plugin's source from Subversion, or a source zip file you can install it using the included `setup.py`:
 {{{
 $ python setup.py install
 }}}
 
-Alternatively, you can just drop the `.egg` file in the Python `site-packages` directory (/usr/lib/python2.x/site-packages).  You ''may'' have to add the path of this `.egg` file into the `easy-install.pth` file located in `site-packages` (This was necessary on a Windows-Apache-mod_python machine, but the file does not exist for a Linux cgi installation and is not necessary as long as the .egg file is dropped in the correct site-packages directory). 
-
+==== Enabling the plugin ====
 Unlike plugins installed per-environment, you'll have to explicitly enable globally installed plugins via [wiki:TracIni trac.ini]. This is done in the `[components]` section of the configuration file, for example:
 {{{