Still struggling to get MeltanoLabs/target-csv to ...
# getting-started
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Still struggling to get MeltanoLabs/target-csv to see its configuration from
meltano.yml
. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling Meltano itself and the plugins. I’ve got the config both under the environment and in the main
plugins:
section. But still I see default behaviour, with no use of the
output_path_prefix
or
file_naming_scheme
config settings. Here’s the latest config. Help please! @Will Da Silva (Arch)
I figured out my mistake! When replacing
target-csv
from HotGlue with the one from MeltanoLabs, I installed it using
pipx
but failed to run
meltano install
. That gets everything working right.
@Will Da Silva (Arch) Just so I understand:
meltano install
basically does the same thing as
pipx install
, but in its own special location within the
.meltano
folder, is that correct?
w
@francis_potter Essentially, yes. It uses the
virtualenv
library (https://virtualenv.pypa.io/) to create an isolated Python environment for each plugin under the
.meltano
directory, which is similar to what
pipx
does.
You may be interested in this feature request for just-in-time installation: https://github.com/meltano/meltano/issues/3261. If this were implemented, then not running
meltano install
ahead of time would not longer be a serious issue.