FAQ¶

Installation¶

My install fails because error: package directory ‘src/find_namespace:’ does not exist¶

If you see an issue with the install failing like so:

$python3.7 -m pip install gilbert
Collecting gilbert
...
    Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
    running egg_info
    creating pip-egg-info/gilbert.egg-info
    writing pip-egg-info/gilbert.egg-info/PKG-INFO
    writing dependency_links to pip-egg-info/gilbert.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
    writing entry points to pip-egg-info/gilbert.egg-info/entry_points.txt
    writing requirements to pip-egg-info/gilbert.egg-info/requires.txt
    writing top-level names to pip-egg-info/gilbert.egg-info/top_level.txt
    writing manifest file 'pip-egg-info/gilbert.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
    error: package directory 'src/find_namespace:' does not exist

    ----------------------------------------
Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-g3bsf2gf-build/

This will be because you have a version of setuptools that is too old, Gilbert requires a version of setuptools >=41.0.1

You can fix this by updating versions:

pip install -U setuptools

How do I have Gilbert automatically rebuild the site when files change?¶

The serve command can automatically watch your content for changes, and re-render automatically for you:

$ gilbert --root mysite serve --watch

This currently only works for Linux based OSs.

For every other OS, you will notice an error that the module could not be found, similar to as follows:

OSError: [WinError 126] The specified module could not be found

This is because the implementation for watch was written only for inotify compatible OSs as a matter of expediency.

However there is a solution to use watchexec, which is available by following the instructions here.

Now the command to have gilbert watch your files, and re-render on changes:

watchexec -i docs gilbert render