Why does Cheesecake fail to execute pylint?

Question

When I execute cheesecake it tells me that pylint had an error:

$ cheesecake_index -n natsort   
[...]
pylint ..........   0  (encountered an error during pylint execution)
[...]

But pylint is installed:

$ pylint --version
pylint 1.3.1, 
astroid 1.2.1, common 0.61.0
Python 2.7.8 (default, Oct 20 2014, 15:05:19) 
[GCC 4.9.1]

I think I have the latest cheesecake:

$ cheesecake_index --version
Cheesecake version 0.6.1 (rev. 176)

I use a Ubuntu 14.10 and installed cheesecake via pip.

Where is the problem?

Answer 1

This appears to be a bug in the cheesecake source. I ran into the same problem and created a pull request with the fix: https://github.com/griggheo/cheesecake/pull/11

Until they have fixed the issues and published the new version on pypy, you could try my fixed fork: https://github.com/micgro42/cheesecake/tree/fixLintVersionDetection (be sure to use the branch fixLintVersionDetection). Should you still get the error with my fixed version, then please provide the log-file of your cheesecake run (cheesecake_index ... -l LOGFILE --keep-log)