Hi Andrew, Looks like you're most likely missing patch.exe on the server, or it's not in the path. The installation guide for Windows should point to a suitable version.
I'm sorry you had so many problems. Installation on Windows is not at all smooth. A large part of this is just that Review Board, and most of its dependencies, were really designed to be run on a Linux or other Posix platform. We've tried to get Review Board itself into shape and smooth out the docs to provide an easier install experience, but it definitely depends on how the system is configured and how the admin wants it configured. You'll see threads on here sometimes with various install problems on Windows, sometimes as a result of having Cygwin installed, or having some C-compiled Python module being built against MSVC vs. Mingw32... Lots of issues like that that are beyond our control, but impact us nonetheless. There was a project the past few months to create a Windows installer, which I'm planning to put into the 1.6 release. Doesn't help you now, certainly, but we are trying to get to a point where it's not so much a pain. What I generally recommend to people is that they try to get an install going on Linux. You will be astounded by how much easier it is to get going, particularly on a modern Fedora or Ubuntu. If you're largely a Windows shop, you could consider using a VM (VMware Server 2.0 is free and works fine for that). Christian -- Christian Hammond - chip...@chipx86.com Review Board - http://www.reviewboard.org VMware, Inc. - http://www.vmware.com On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Andrew Leppke <alep...@hotmail.com> wrote: > I'm trying to determine if Review Board is right for our company and > so far, I've had nothing but problems. I ran into numerous > installation problems because I couldn't figure out which versions of > what I needed to use. But I solved all that. At least, I think I've > solved all that since the server is up and running. > > My latest problem occurred when I attempted to create my first review. > I used post-review to create and upload a diff. Everything looked like > it had worked from the command line as I got the following output: > > C:\workspaces\test\src\test>post-review -o > ==> Review Board Login Required > Enter username and password for Review Board at http://localhost/reviews/ > Username: leppke > Password: > Review request #2 posted. > > http://localhost/reviews/r/2 > > As expected, it opened a browser to the review and sure enough, it was > there. I click on the View Diff tab and am treated to this wonderful > stacktrace: > > [Error 2] The system cannot find the file specified > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "c:\python25\lib\site-packages\ReviewBoard-1.5.1-py2.5.egg > \reviewboard\diffviewer\views.py", line 153, in view_diff > interdiffset, highlighting, True) > File "c:\python25\lib\site-packages\ReviewBoard-1.5.1-py2.5.egg > \reviewboard\diffviewer\diffutils.py", line 1063, in get_diff_files > large_data=True) > File "c:\python25\lib\site-packages\Djblets-0.6.6-py2.5.egg\djblets > \util\misc.py", line 166, in cache_memoize > data = lookup_callable() > File "c:\python25\lib\site-packages\ReviewBoard-1.5.1-py2.5.egg > \reviewboard\diffviewer\diffutils.py", line 1062, in <lambda> > enable_syntax_highlighting)), > File "c:\python25\lib\site-packages\ReviewBoard-1.5.1-py2.5.egg > \reviewboard\diffviewer\diffutils.py", line 549, in get_chunks > new = get_patched_file(old, filediff) > File "c:\python25\lib\site-packages\ReviewBoard-1.5.1-py2.5.egg > \reviewboard\diffviewer\diffutils.py", line 374, in get_patched_file > return patch(filediff.diff, buffer, filediff.dest_file) > File "c:\python25\lib\site-packages\ReviewBoard-1.5.1-py2.5.egg > \reviewboard\diffviewer\diffutils.py", line 222, in patch > stderr=subprocess.STDOUT) > File "C:\Python25\lib\subprocess.py", line 594, in __init__ > errread, errwrite) > File "C:\Python25\lib\subprocess.py", line 822, in _execute_child > startupinfo) > WindowsError: [Error 2] The system cannot find the file specified > > > From what I can tell, it threw a FileNotFound exception when trying to > create the diff but it doesn't say which file it was trying to find. > Anyone have any suggestions? > > -- > Want to help the Review Board project? Donate today at > http://www.reviewboard.org/donate/ > Happy user? Let us know at http://www.reviewboard.org/users/ > -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > reviewboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/reviewboard?hl=en -- Want to help the Review Board project? Donate today at http://www.reviewboard.org/donate/ Happy user? Let us know at http://www.reviewboard.org/users/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- To unsubscribe from this group, send email to reviewboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/reviewboard?hl=en
