Feature request: "bzr check-install"

[Jan Hudec]

On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 07:33:26 +0200, Matthieu Moy wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've just installed bzr on an "old" Fedora Core 2, which had none of
> bzr's dependancies or recommandation as .rpm package.
> 
> It was quite a pain indeed: after "bzr" started to work, I still had
> to install paramiko, which itself didn't work until I installed
> pycrypto (giving no relevant error message, so a beginner would have
> been completely lost here, but this is a known bug).
> 
> Then, I installed cElementTree because I knew it was nice to have it.
> 
> Something that would have considerably eased my life then would be a
> command to check that the installation is complete. A kind of short
> and user-friendly "bzr selftest":
> 
> $ bzr check-install
> bzr works: yes
> sftp works: no (missing pycrypto)
> cElementTree installed: no (bzr will still run, but slower)
> $ 
> 
> or
> 
> $ bzr check-install
> bzr works: yes
> sftp works: yes
> cElementTree installed: yes
> All dependancies and recommandations are satisfied
> $ 
> 
> It should be relatively easy to implement, and would considerably
> improve the first contact of beginners requiring to install bzr
> themselves.

The other thing is, that setup.py should do these things. Doesn't it?

-- 
						 Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb at ucw.cz>
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