Refactored the devel/bin structure to hopefully make the system work better on Windows.

bin/unix/evennia

@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+#! /usr/bin/python2.7
+"""
+Linux launcher
+"""
+
+import os, sys
+
+sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath(os.getcwd()))
+
+from  evennia.server.evennia_launcher import main
+main()

bin/windows/evennia.bat

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+@"python" "evennia.py" %*

bin/windows/evennia.py

@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+#! /usr/bin/python2.7
+"""
+Linux launcher
+"""
+
+import os, sys
+
+sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath(os.getcwd()))
+
+from  evennia.server.evennia_launcher import main
+main()

evennia/server/evennia_launcher.py

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
 """
-EVENNIA SERVER STARTUP SCRIPT
+EVENNIA SERVER LAUNCHER SCRIPT
 
 This is the start point for running Evennia.
 
@@ -22,15 +22,15 @@ import django
 SIG = signal.SIGINT
 
 # Set up the main python paths to Evennia
-EVENNIA_ROOT = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))
-EVENNIA_BIN = os.path.join(EVENNIA_ROOT, "bin")
+EVENNIA_ROOT = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))))
 
 import evennia
 EVENNIA_LIB = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(evennia.__file__)))
-EVENNIA_RUNNER = os.path.join(EVENNIA_BIN, "evennia_runner.py")
+EVENNIA_SERVER = os.path.join(EVENNIA_LIB, "server")
+EVENNIA_RUNNER = os.path.join(EVENNIA_SERVER, "evennia_runner.py")
 EVENNIA_TEMPLATE = os.path.join(EVENNIA_LIB, "game_template")
-EVENNIA_BINTESTING = os.path.join(EVENNIA_BIN, "testing")
-EVENNIA_DUMMYRUNNER = os.path.join(EVENNIA_BINTESTING, "dummyrunner.py")
+EVENNIA_TESTING = os.path.join(EVENNIA_SERVER, "testing")
+EVENNIA_DUMMYRUNNER = os.path.join(EVENNIA_TESTING, "dummyrunner.py")
 
 TWISTED_BINARY = "twistd"
 
@@ -59,11 +59,6 @@ TWISTED_MIN = '12.0'
 DJANGO_MIN = '1.7'
 DJANGO_REC = '1.7'
 
-# add Evennia root to PYTHONPATH note that bin/evennia.py is
-# automatically added to sys.modules  and will be imported first, which
-# is not what we want. So we remove it manually and set the path so
-# the root/evennia package is found first instead.
-del sys.modules["evennia"]
 sys.path[0] = EVENNIA_ROOT
 
 #------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -656,7 +651,7 @@ def init_game_directory(path, check_db=True):
             print ERROR_WINDOWS_WIN32API
             sys.exit()
 
-        if not os.path.exists(os.path.join(EVENNIA_BIN, TWISTED_BINARY)):
+        if not os.path.exists(os.path.join(EVENNIA_SERVER, TWISTED_BINARY)):
             # Test for executable twisted batch file. This calls the
             # twistd.py executable that is usually not found on the
             # path in Windows.  It's not enough to locate

setup.py

@@ -26,17 +26,10 @@ def get_scripts():
     Determine which executable scripts should be added. For Windows,
     this means creating a .bat file.
     """
-    execlist = []
     if os.name == "nt":
-        # Windows
-        with open(os.path.join("bin", "evennia.bat"), "w") as bat_file:
-            bat_file.write("@\"%s\" \"%s\" %%*" % (sys.executable, "evennia"))
-        execlist.extend(["bin/evennia.bat", "bin/evennia"])
+        return [os.path.join("bin", "windows", "evennia.bat"), os.path.join("bin", "windows", "evennia.py")]
     else:
-        # Linux, Mac
-        execlist.append("bin/evennia")
-    execlist.append("bin/evennia_runner.py")
-    return execlist
+        return [os.path.join("bin", "unix", "evennia")]
 
 
 def get_version():