invalid command 'compile_catalog' and plugin doesn't load at all

[falkb]

D:\tmp\plugins\tracreportinplaceeditplugin\0.11>dir
 Volume in drive D is xxxx
 Volume Serial Number is xxxxxx

 Directory of D:\tmp\plugins\tracreportinplaceeditplugin\0.11

02/24/2011  04:48 PM    <DIR>          .
02/24/2011  04:48 PM    <DIR>          ..
11/12/2010  12:55 AM             1,010 i18n_for_developer.txt
02/24/2011  04:48 PM    <DIR>          ripe
11/12/2010  12:55 AM               422 setup.cfg
11/12/2010  12:55 AM             1,259 setup.py
               3 File(s)          2,691 bytes
               3 Dir(s)  xx,xxx,xxx,896 bytes free

D:\tmp\plugins\tracreportinplaceeditplugin\0.11>python setup.py compile_catalog
-f
usage: setup.py [global_opts] cmd1 [cmd1_opts] [cmd2 [cmd2_opts] ...]
   or: setup.py --help [cmd1 cmd2 ...]
   or: setup.py --help-commands
   or: setup.py cmd --help

error: invalid command 'compile_catalog'

After that I called: python setup.py bdist_egg and this works without visible problems. Then I copied the .egg file to the plugin dir of my trac project, and I added ripe.* = enabled to the components section of trac.ini of my project. I restarted Apache+Trac-0.12.1, but the plugin doesn't appear in the .egg-cache dir and neither in the plugin list of the webinterface Admin page. So it doesn't work at all. Installing other plugins this way work well.

[richard]

The command compile_catalog' in Trac-0.12.1 is for i18n support, which means Babel should be installed properly. TracReportInplaceEditPlugin support i18n, but there are few messages to be translated, so you can ignore it safely.

To enable this plugin, you can check if simplejson is installed properly.

[anonymous]

Replying to richard:

To enable this plugin, you can check if simplejson is installed properly.

oops... I missed that prerequisite chapter. Could not installing it lead to such misbehaviour?