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pip install . now works, which suggests we can publish to pypi soon.
But currently a successful pip install requires sudo. This is bad for all sorts of reasons.
The only big obstacles I know off the top of my head is:
- the dbbindings.py script needs to be place in /usr/lib/cgi-bin. This is only necessary for a subset of bookworms, anyway: some people will use a flask server, or the bookworm serve method, and so don't need to hit their system files at all. Rather than happening in the core install, there should be a new command called
bookworm config apache2that parcels out that script for those who want apache to handle their API calls over port 80. - There are various other situations in which an interactive or non-interactive script will ask for root access. (For example, to modify the file at
/etc/mysql/my.cnf; or for that new apache2 call.) Typically this happens through bookworm invoking itself on the command line through a subprocess. If bookworm isn't installed in the root user's path, these might fail. This is a particular pain when things happen like a virtualenv handling python installation. - Similarly to 2: when running the API through Apache, typically the user invoking python is not the user who installed bookworm. (It's
www-dataorhttpdor something like that). So that user also needs bookworm in their pythonpath.
The solution to 1 is easy. For 2 and 3, it is necessary to install bookworm separately for root and for the username, or to perform some gymnastics on various PYTHONPATH variables.
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