Funnelweb error installing transmogrify.webcrawler

Question

I am trying to install the funnelweb add-on for the latest version of plone (4.2.x). I have tried this on 3 different computers, and get this same mistake on all of them. The error is pasted below:

magiq@magiq-VirtualBox:~/Plone/zinstance$ bin/buildout 
Getting distribution for 'transmogrify.webcrawler>=1.1'.
error: README.rst: No such file or directory
An error occured when trying to install transmogrify.webcrawler 1.2. Look above this message for any errors that were output by easy_install.

While:
  Installing.
  Getting section unifiedinstaller.
  Initializing part unifiedinstaller.
  Getting section funnelweb.
  Initializing section funnelweb.
  Installing recipe funnelweb.
  Getting distribution for 'transmogrify.webcrawler>=1.1'.
Error: Couldn't install: transmogrify.webcrawler 1.2

*************** PICKED VERSIONS ****************
[versions]
BeautifulSoup = 3.2.1
charm = 1.0b4
funnelweb = 1.1.1
mr.migrator = 1.0.1
transmogrify.htmlcontentextractor = 1.0
transmogrify.ploneremote = 1.3
transmogrify.siteanalyser = 1.3
xlrd = 0.8.0

*************** /PICKED VERSIONS ***************

Has anyone solved this issue? Thanks in advance

Answer 1

The author made a packaging mistake and didn't include the README.rst file in the distribution.

Update: Version 1.2.1 was released fixing this issue. Try installing again.

For future reference, when you run into such a problem, you can pin transmogrify.webcrawler to a specific version (such as 1.1) in your [versions] section:

[versions]
transmogrify.webcrawler = 1.1

or use mr.developer to get the development version:

[buildout]
# assumption: you already have mr.developer in your buildout
auto-checkout += transmogrify.webcrawler

[sources]
transmogrify.webcrawler = git git://github.com/collective/transmogrify.webcrawler.git

I filed a bug report to let the author know; hopefully there will be a fixed version available soon.