Archives of scancode 1.4.0 don't run.

[rrjohnston]

After unpacking either the bz2 or zip file onto 3.13.0-32-generic #57~precise1-Ubuntu machine, trying to run the utility on a source directory (after running './scancode --help') always results in the following error (this particular example was scanning the scancode-toolkit-1.4.0/src directory):

$: ./scancode --format html src src.html
Scanning files...
[------------------------------------] 1 Scanning: textcode
Scanning done.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "//scancode-toolkit-1.4.0/bin/scancode", line 9, in
load_entry_point('scancode-toolkit==1.4.0', 'console_scripts', 'scancode')()
File "//scancode-toolkit-1.4.0/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 664, in call
return self.main(_args, *_kwargs)
File "//scancode-toolkit-1.4.0/src/scancode/utils.py", line 61, in main
standalone_mode=standalone_mode, *_extra)
File "//scancode-toolkit-1.4.0/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 644, in main
rv = self.invoke(ctx)
File "//scancode-toolkit-1.4.0/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 837, in invoke
return ctx.invoke(self.callback, *_ctx.params)
File "//scancode-toolkit-1.4.0/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 464, in invoke
return callback(_args, *_kwargs)
File "//scancode-toolkit-1.4.0/src/scancode/cli.py", line 244, in scancode
results = scan(input, copyright, license, package, info, verbose, quiet)
File "//scancode-toolkit-1.4.0/src/scancode/cli.py", line 312, in scan
scan_result.update(scan_one(res, scanners))
File "//scancode-toolkit-1.4.0/src/scancode/cli.py", line 329, in scan_one
scan = scan_func(input_file)
File "//scancode-toolkit-1.4.0/src/scancode/api.py", line 137, in get_package_infos
from packagedcode.recognize import recognize_packaged_archives
ImportError: No module named packagedcode.recognize

[jdaguil]

@rrjohnston I've reproduced the error from the release archives as well. Although the issue is not present when cloning from master or downloading the archive directly from the master branch.

[pombredanne]

I found the culprit: https://github.com/nexB/scancode-toolkit/blob/9be433a8e6f1741aa75de64fe00d0fdc458625c5/etc/release/MANIFEST.in.release#L8
This is the release script. Let me re-run and push a new .release

[pombredanne]

I will also be adding a release test (either a plain script or as part of the CI configs)

[pombredanne]

This is fixed in the new release 1.4.2. And from now on, sanity checks are included in the release script.
@rrjohnston Thank you for the report!