[Mapnik-users] shapefile-plugin isn't working

[Dane Springmeyer]

Tobias,

Could you explain a bit more? By two directories do you mean two 0.7  
branch directories in svn?  There should only be one that I created  
when I branched from trunk a few weeks ago. If you mean two different  
local checkouts then why don't you just ditch one and do a fresh  
install?

The error you are getting usually results from two different Mapnik  
versions being installed, say the apt-get package that uses a version  
prefix for the installed plugin directory and a source installed  
version. Doing a full scons -c (clean) and reinstall usually fixes the  
problem (and of course uninstalling the packaged version) by ensuring  
that the python bindings are installed correctly which know the proper  
location to register the plugins ( see the __init__. py file and the  
'paths.py' file for the paths - determined at install time) that are  
used to register the plugins. Long sentence sorry- too much holiday  
beer:)

The installed shapefile plugin is a dynamic library called  
'shape.input', so if the above discussion does not help resolve your  
problem then finding all instances of that file on your system and  
sending an email back to the list would be helpful.

Dane

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On Dec 29, 2009, at 8:06 AM, Tobias Wendorff <tobias.wendorff at uni-dortmund.de 
 > wrote:

> Hi there
>
> some days ago, there were two 0.7 directories: one worked, one didn't.
>
> Right now, it's impossible to get it working with shapefiles!
> "branches/0.7/plugins/input/shape/" exists, but many of us
> get this error:
>
> Could not create datasource. No plugin found for type 'shape'
> (encountered during parsing of layer 'world').
>
> I used the "other" 0.7 directory and it worked. But this one
> got removed now.
>
> Best regards,
> Tobias
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