Comments on Just a little Python: Zarkov is an event logger

A helpful reader pointed out that you can get into...

2011-11-01T14:18:41.236-04:00

A helpful reader pointed out that you can get into trouble installing ZeroMQ in /usr/local and trying to just 'pip install Zarkov'. Here's the solution I was able to come up with to get this to work. Just before the 'pip install Zarkov' command, you'll need to install pyzmq using the following command line:

pip install pyzmq --install-option='--zmq=/usr/local'

Hopefully that gets you around any installation hiccups you run into.

Install Zarkov's dependencies with Homebrew on...

2011-08-24T10:57:33.975-04:00

Install Zarkov's dependencies with Homebrew on a Mac:

$ brew install zeromq
$ brew install libevent

After that you'll need to create a journal directory before starting up zarkov:

(zarkov) $ mkdir journal
(zarkov) $ zcmd -y development.yaml serve

It's just my own tradition. Since Mongo is the...

2011-07-21T17:13:35.869-04:00

It's just my own tradition. Since Mongo is the planet ruled by the emperor Ming the Merciless in Flash Gordon, I named my MongoDB library Ming. Zarkov is the scientist that helps Flash and Dale get to Mongo, so I figured I'd name an event logger that puts stuff into Mongo "Zarkov".

"... a service in Python that I'm calling...

2011-07-21T17:10:05.066-04:00

"... a service in Python that I'm calling, in the tradition of naming projects after characters in Flash Gordon, Zarkov."

I was not aware of this tradition. Can you elaborate?