If you (or some other windows user) can figure out a way not to, I'm
all ears. ;)
--Mark Ramm
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 5:41 PM, Kevin Horn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Wow. I didn't know you could do that. Thanks, Florent, that worked fine.
>
> I still see this as a potential problem though. We get a lot of new users
> who aren't familiar with setuptools and/or virtualenv.
>
> Also, it seems silly to have pywin32 as a dependency (even if it is
> indirectly, and only applies in some cases).
>
> Kevin Horn
>
> On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 12:36 PM, Florent Aide <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>>
>> Did you try to easy_install -Z the .exe ? This should work...
>>
>> On 8/20/08, Kevin Horn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > Meant to send this to the trunk list...
>> >
>> >
>> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> > From: Kevin H <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> > Date: Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 12:01 PM
>> > Subject: TG2 Quickstart fails on Win32 if spaces present in path
>> > To: TurboGears <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> >
>> >
>> > Just downloaded a new install og tg.devtools-1.9.7a3-py2.5.egg into a
>> > new virtualenv on WinXP, using Py2.5.
>> >
>> > The install went fine, but when trying to quickstart a new project, it
>> > fails with the following traceback:
>> >
>> > <SNIP>
>> > Recursing into ez_setup
>> > Creating .\conman\ez_setup/
>> > Copying README.txt to .\conman\ez_setup\README.txt
>> > Copying __init__.py to .\conman\ez_setup\__init__.py
>> > Copying setup.cfg_tmpl to .\conman\setup.cfg
>> > Copying setup.py_tmpl to .\conman\setup.py
>> > Copying test.ini_tmpl to .\conman\test.ini
>> > Recursing into tests
>> > Creating .\conman\tests/
>> > Copying test_controller.py_tmpl to .\conman\tests
>> > \test_controller.py
>> > Traceback (most recent call last):
>> > File "C:\Documents and
>> > Settings\kevinh\Desktop\mine_id\tg2env\Scripts
>> > \paster-script.py", line 8, in <module>
>> > load_entry_point('pastescript==1.6.3',
>> > 'console_scripts', 'paster')
>> > ()
>> > File "c:\documents and
>> > settings\kevinh\desktop\mine_id\tg2env\lib
>> > \site-packages\pastescript-1.6.3-py2.5.egg\paste\script\command.py",
>> > line 79, in run
>> > invoke(command, command_name, options, args[1:])
>> > File "c:\documents and
>> > settings\kevinh\desktop\mine_id\tg2env\lib
>> > \site-packages\pastescript-1.6.3-py2.5.egg\paste\script\command.py",
>> > line 118, in invoke
>> > exit_code = runner.run(args)
>> > File "c:\documents and
>> > settings\kevinh\desktop\mine_id\tg2env\lib
>> > \site-packages\pastescript-1.6.3-py2.5.egg\paste\script\command.py",
>> > line 213, in run
>> > result = self.command()
>> > File "c:\documents and
>> > settings\kevinh\desktop\mine_id\tg2env\lib
>> > \site-packages\tg.devtools-1.9.7a3-py2.5.egg\devtools\commands
>> > \quickstart.py", line 202, in c
>> > ommand
>> > command.run(cmd_args)
>> > File "c:\documents and
>> > settings\kevinh\desktop\mine_id\tg2env\lib
>> > \site-packages\pastescript-1.6.3-py2.5.egg\paste\script\command.py",
>> > line 213, in run
>> > result = self.command()
>> > File "c:\documents and
>> > settings\kevinh\desktop\mine_id\tg2env\lib
>> > \site-packages\pastescript-1.6.3-py2.5.egg\paste\script
>> > \create_distro.py", line 156, in comma
>> > nd
>> > expect_returncode=True)
>> > File "c:\documents and
>> > settings\kevinh\desktop\mine_id\tg2env\lib
>> > \site-packages\pastescript-1.6.3-py2.5.egg\paste\script\command.py",
>> > line 539, in run_command
>> >
>> > cmd = self.quote_first_command_arg(cmd)
>> > File "c:\documents and
>> > settings\kevinh\desktop\mine_id\tg2env\lib
>> > \site-packages\pastescript-1.6.3-py2.5.egg\paste\script\command.py",
>> > line 608, in quote_first
>> > _command_arg
>> > "installed" % arg)
>> > ValueError: The executable 'C:\\Documents and Settings\\kevinh\\Desktop
>> > \\mine_id\\tg2env\\Scripts\\python.exe' contains a space,
>> > and in order
>> > to handle this issue you must have the win32api module installed
>> >
>> > I have verified that quickstarting works fine when the path of the new
>> > quickstarted project directory does not contain any spaces, but this
>> > seems to me to be a pretty big problem. Is there a way to easily
>> > install pywin32 into a virtualenv? (no egg is available AFAIK for
>> > pywin32...it uses a binary installer)
>> >
>> > Is there a way to fix this, or are Windows users now stuck with not
>> > being able to use virtualenv? I don't recall this being an issue
>> > before, and I've created a number of projects using previous TG2
>> > versions over the last several months. Has something changed in
>> > Pastescript maybe?
>> >
>> > Kevin Horn
>> >
>> >
>> > >
>> >
>>
>>
>
>
> >
>
--
Mark Ramm-Christensen
email: mark at compoundthinking dot com
blog: www.compoundthinking.com/blog
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