[MlMt] MailMate status (All things HTML)

[Rob McBroom]

On 10 Aug 2015, at 16:23, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> Thanks, that's obviously the problem. I'll look into making the script 
> more robust.

It’s generally bad practice to install Python packages (other than 
virtualenv) into the system site packages.

This should work…

Create a virtualenv inside the bundle itself and install Pygments there.

     sudo easy_install pip
     sudo pip install virtualenv
     # in the bundle’s directory
     virtualenv env
     env/bin/pip install pygments

Then update the script to call `env/bin/pygmentize`.

Or look at how I did it with BeautifulSoup in Quicksilver. I don’t 
even think I needed `virtualenv`, but that was a long time ago and 
I’ve forgotten.

Other considerations:

   * You should make sure the bundle that gets pushed out doesn’t 
include the compiled files. Adding `*.pyc` to Git’s ignore list should 
do it.
   * This means MailMate will always use that copy of Pygments and not 
the one the user has installed in some other location (like 
`/usr/local`). As a result…
     * Custom color schemes from PyPI would have to be installed into 
the virtualenv, too.
     * You’ll always be able to include a “known to work” version 
of Pygments.

-- 
Rob McBroom
http://www.skurfer.com/
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