IGN: Setup loading of pictureflow plugin in linux

.bzrignore

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 *_ui.py
 moc_*.cpp
-plugins
+src/calibre/plugins
 src/calibre/gui2/pictureflow/.build/
 src/calibre/gui2/pictureflow/PyQt/.build/
 src/calibre/gui2/pictureflow/Makefile

Makefile

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ manual:
 	make -C src/calibre/manual clean html
 
 pictureflow :
-	mkdir -p plugins && rm -f plugins/*pictureflow* && \
+	mkdir -p src/calibre/plugins && rm -f src/calibre/plugins/*pictureflow* && \
 	cd src/calibre/gui2/pictureflow && \
 	mkdir -p .build && cd .build && rm -f * && \
 	qmake ../pictureflow-lib.pro && make && \
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ pictureflow :
 	cd .build && rm -f * && \
 	python ../configure.py && make && \
 	cd ../../../../../.. && \
-	cp src/calibre/gui2/pictureflow/.build/libpictureflow.so.?.?.? src/calibre/gui2/pictureflow/PyQt/.build/pictureflow.so plugins/ && \
-	python -c "import os, glob; lp = glob.glob('plugins/libpictureflow.so.*')[0]; os.rename(lp, lp[:-4])"
+	cp src/calibre/gui2/pictureflow/.build/libpictureflow.so.?.?.? src/calibre/gui2/pictureflow/PyQt/.build/pictureflow.so src/calibre/plugins/ && \
+	python -c "import os, glob; lp = glob.glob('src/calibre/plugins/libpictureflow.so.*')[0]; os.rename(lp, lp[:-4])"
 
 

setup.py

@@ -48,11 +48,21 @@ main_functions = {
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     from setuptools import setup, find_packages
-    import subprocess
+    import subprocess, glob
+    
+    from setuptools.command.egg_info import egg_info
+    
+    class CalibreEggInfo(egg_info):
+    
+        def run(self):
+            files = glob.glob('plugins/*')
+            egg_info.run(self)
+
     
     entry_points['console_scripts'].append('calibre_postinstall = calibre.linux:post_install')
     
     setup(
+          cmdclass = { 'egg_info' : CalibreEggInfo, },
           name=APPNAME, 
           packages = find_packages('src'), 
           package_dir = { '' : 'src' }, 
@@ -61,14 +71,16 @@ if __name__ == '__main__':
           author_email='kovid@kovidgoyal.net', 
           url = 'http://%s.kovidgoyal.net'%APPNAME, 
           include_package_data = True,
+          package_data = {'': ['*.so.*', '*.so']},
           entry_points = entry_points, 
-          zip_safe = True,
+          zip_safe = False,
+          options = { 'bdist_egg' : {'exclude_source_files': True,}, },
           description = 
-                      """
-                      Ebook management application.
-                      """, 
+                      '''
+                      E-book management application.
+                      ''', 
           long_description = 
-          """
+          '''
   %s is an e-book library manager. It can view, convert and catalog e-books in most of the major e-book formats. It can also talk to a few e-book reader devices. It can go out to the internet and fetch metadata for your books. It can download newspapers and convert them into e-books for convenient reading. It is cross platform, running on Linux, Windows and OS X.
   
   For screenshots: https://%s.kovidgoyal.net/wiki/Screenshots
@@ -82,7 +94,7 @@ if __name__ == '__main__':
   To update your copy of the source code: 
   bzr merge
             
-          """%(APPNAME, APPNAME, APPNAME, APPNAME, APPNAME),
+          '''%(APPNAME, APPNAME, APPNAME, APPNAME, APPNAME),
           license = 'GPL', 
           classifiers = [
             'Development Status :: 4 - Beta', 

src/calibre/__init__.py

@@ -540,3 +540,20 @@ def strftime(fmt, t=time.localtime()):
         return unicode(result, locale.getpreferredencoding(), 'replace')
     except:
         return unicode(result, 'utf-8', 'replace')
+    
+if islinux:
+    import pkg_resources
+    if not os.environ.has_key('LD_LIBRARY_PATH'):
+        os.environ['LD_LIBRARY_PATH'] = ''
+    plugins = pkg_resources.resource_filename(__appname__, 'plugins')
+    os.environ['LD_LIBRARY_PATH'] = plugins + ':' + os.environ['LD_LIBRARY_PATH']
+    sys.path.insert(1, plugins)
+    cwd = os.getcwd()
+    os.chdir(plugins)
+    try:
+        import pictureflow
+    except:
+        import traceback
+        traceback.print_exc()
+        pictureflow = None
+    os.chdir(cwd) 

src/calibre/gui2/pictureflow/PyQt/configure.py

@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ makefile = pyqtconfig.QtGuiModuleMakefile (
 # ".dll" extension on Windows).
 makefile.extra_lib_dirs = ['../../.build']
 makefile.extra_libs = ["pictureflow"]
+makefile.extra_lflags = ['-Wl,--rpath=.']
 
 # Generate the Makefile itself.
 makefile.generate()

src/calibre/manual/faq.rst

@@ -123,6 +123,7 @@ Take your pick:
   * Convertor And LIBRary for E-books
   * A high *calibre* product
   * A tribute to the SONY Librie which was the first e-ink based e-book reader
+  * My wife chose it ;-)
 
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