The asset compilation that occurs as part of `python setup.py sdist`
would find all the files to include first, then recompile all the
assets, before finally packaging them all up. This means that if a new
file was created as part of the asset compilation that was not there
when all the files were first searched for, that file would not be
included in the package.
Now, the asset compilation happens before the file system is searched
for assets to include, so all assets should always be included.
Depending on libsass for all Wagtail installations was causing issues
with various operating systems, dramatically increasing installation
times, and preventing front end development adopting modern practices.
libsass has been removed as a dependency. Sass files are compiled before
release as a dependency of the `sdist` setup command. Sass compilation
is done through `gulp`. People wishing to hack on the frontend assets
should now install wagtail locally, install the node dependencies, and
run `gulp`:
$ pip install -e path/to/wagtail
$ cd path/to/wagtail
$ npm install
$ npm start
All the templates and JS files have been updated to reference the new
compiled CSS files instead of the Sass files.
Precompiled CSS for jquery-ui and similar have been moved out of the
`scss/` directory to the `css/` directory.
This commit removes libsass and Pillow from the setup.py dependency list. This greatly improves install performance and also means that the basic Wagtail installation is pure-python (so no build tools need to be on the end users host machine).
None of these dependencies are directly called from within Wagtail so the start project command continues to work correctly.
These can cause real headaches if you have a different version of six or requests on your host machine.
This should fix the ``pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound`` error some people have been getting with the "wagtail start" command.
