pywin32 can't be installed automatically #142

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We need to choose a manageable subset of desired improvements for v0.7.1, scheduled for two week hence, so I'm bumping this one into v0.7.2, scheduled for mid-December.

We need to choose a manageable subset of desired improvements for [v0.7.1](http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/milestone/0.7.1), scheduled for two week hence, so I'm bumping this one into [v0.7.2](http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/milestone/0.7.2), scheduled for mid-December.

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zooko added this to the undecided milestone 2008-01-23 04:21:53 +00:00

zooko commented

2008-03-10 17:38:42 +00:00

Hooray! Philip J. Eby found a bug in setuptools that was causing this problem:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2008-March/008867.html

Hooray! Philip J. Eby found a bug in setuptools that was causing this problem: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2008-March/008867.html>

zooko commented

2008-05-15 22:04:30 +00:00

setuptools 0.6c8 doesn't have the patch that makes it able to handle pywin32, but the current unreleased SVN of setuptools has.

zooko commented

2008-06-02 23:16:34 +00:00

Here is the ticket on the setuptools issue tracker:

http://bugs.python.org/setuptools/issue18

Here is the ticket on the setuptools issue tracker: <http://bugs.python.org/setuptools/issue18>

zooko commented

2008-12-05 23:38:34 +00:00

This has been fixed, but pywin32 isn't hosted on pypi so it isn't automatically downloaded by easy_install. However, we can host our own copies, e.g. http://testgrid.allmydata.org:3567/uri/URI%3ADIR2-RO%3Asnrfwfxatrci35zdgjnzxxx2ke%3Aunarxv347edtku3xzmefy4mcdmfngxzeb72iyqcadbjzjpczjx5a/

The ticket asking the pywin32 folks to post packages (or links) on pypi is https://sourceforge.net/tracker2/?func=detail&aid=1799934&group_id=78018&atid=551954

Closing this ticket.

This has been fixed, but pywin32 isn't hosted on pypi so it isn't automatically downloaded by easy_install. However, we can host our own copies, e.g. <http://testgrid.allmydata.org:3567/uri/URI%3ADIR2-RO%3Asnrfwfxatrci35zdgjnzxxx2ke%3Aunarxv347edtku3xzmefy4mcdmfngxzeb72iyqcadbjzjpczjx5a/> The ticket asking the pywin32 folks to post packages (or links) on pypi is <https://sourceforge.net/tracker2/?func=detail&aid=1799934&group_id=78018&atid=551954> Closing this ticket.

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2008-12-05 23:38:34 +00:00

zooko commented

2009-03-02 17:16:22 +00:00

Whoops, I don't think pywin32 and the latest setuptools/zetuptoolz work after all.

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zooko reopened this issue

2009-03-02 17:16:22 +00:00

zooko commented

2009-09-19 20:40:10 +00:00

See also ticket #756 (if pywin32 has been manually installed, setuptools still doesn't detect it).

zooko commented

2010-02-06 05:20:58 +00:00

Setuptools is being eclipsed by a vigorously developed fork of setuptools named "distribute". There is one ticket open in their issue tracker which mentions pywin32. Perhaps the maintainers of distribute would like to make sure that pywin32 is installable with their tool.

(Distribute is backwards-compatible with setuptools so we could switch over to distribute without too much difficulty.)

Setuptools is being eclipsed by a vigorously developed fork of setuptools named "distribute". There is one ticket open in their issue tracker which mentions pywin32. Perhaps the maintainers of distribute would like to make sure that pywin32 is installable with their tool. (Distribute is backwards-compatible with setuptools so we could switch over to distribute without too much difficulty.)

zooko commented

2010-04-15 04:21:19 +00:00

Okay, I found a helpful person on #distutils IRC channel who tried to easy_install pywin32 using distribute 0.6.10. The results are:

http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issue/141/easy_install-pywin32-binary-succeeds-and-then-says-it-cant-find
http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issue/140/compile-from-source-of-pywin32-failed
There is also an independent problem that the pywin32 files are not linked from pypi.python.org so setuptools will not find them to auto-download them unless we add an entry to find_links in source:setup.cfg. (Possibly that entry should be <http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/files/> but I'm not sure if sourceforge's mirroring scheme will defeat setuptools's auto-downloading scheme.) Alternately we could host copies of the pywin32 packages on a Tahoe-LAFS grid and put the URL of that into find_links. :-)
I'm pursuing http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issue/140/compile-from-source-of-pywin32-failed , which looks like it might be related to #756.

Okay, I found a helpful person on #distutils IRC channel who tried to easy_install pywin32 using distribute 0.6.10. The results are: * <http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issue/141/easy_install-pywin32-binary-succeeds-and-then-says-it-cant-find> * <http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issue/140/compile-from-source-of-pywin32-failed> There is also an independent problem that the pywin32 files are not linked from pypi.python.org so setuptools will not find them to auto-download them unless we add an entry to `find_links` in source:setup.cfg. (Possibly that entry should be `<http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/files/>` but I'm not sure if sourceforge's mirroring scheme will defeat setuptools's auto-downloading scheme.) Alternately we could host copies of the pywin32 packages on a Tahoe-LAFS grid and put the URL of that into `find_links`. :-) I'm pursuing <http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issue/140/compile-from-source-of-pywin32-failed> , which looks like it might be related to #756.

zooko commented

2010-11-03 04:22:34 +00:00

(@@http://www.mail-archive.com/python-win32@python.org/msg05269.html@@)
I work for a company called Enthought who also ships a Python Distribution(EPD) which includes an 'egg' version of pywin32 that someone could easy_install. The entire distribution is free, but unfortunately there is an annual fee to access the egg repository for individual packages. However, I would be more than willing to help you get started with using setuptools and creating an egg for pywin32 :). Even if the pywin32 project doesn't upload the egg to PyPi, there is still another way through setuptools to make a single install step for your users.

(@@http://www.mail-archive.com/python-win32@python.org/msg05269.html@@) I work for a company called Enthought who also ships a Python Distribution(EPD) which includes an 'egg' version of pywin32 that someone could easy_install. The entire distribution is free, but unfortunately there is an annual fee to access the egg repository for individual packages. However, I would be more than willing to help you get started with using setuptools and creating an egg for pywin32 :). Even if the pywin32 project doesn't upload the egg to PyPi, there is still another way through setuptools to make a single install step for your users.

zooko commented

2010-11-14 09:00:21 +00:00

See also #1093 (win32 build hell).

davidsarah commented

2010-11-30 23:50:11 +00:00

See also #1274 (eliminate pywin32 dependency).

davidsarah commented

2011-07-31 20:52:06 +00:00

No longer required.

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2011-07-31 20:52:06 +00:00

daira commented

2014-03-17 18:50:08 +00:00

Reopening because of #2028 (Twisted endpoints introduce a dependency on pywin32).

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daira reopened this issue

2014-03-17 18:50:08 +00:00

tahoe-lafs modified the milestone from eventually to undecided

2014-03-17 18:50:18 +00:00

zooko commented

2014-06-30 21:46:23 +00:00

#2247 was a duplicate of this.

zooko commented

2014-06-30 21:48:30 +00:00

This interacts with https://github.com/twisted/nevow/issues/43 (why does Nevow depend on Twisted >= 13.0?).

This interacts with <https://github.com/twisted/nevow/issues/43> (why does Nevow depend on Twisted >= 13.0?).

zooko commented

2014-06-30 22:03:16 +00:00

Here's a feature request that might help: http://sourceforge.net/p/pywin32/bugs/669/

Here's a feature request that might help: <http://sourceforge.net/p/pywin32/bugs/669/>

daira commented

2014-07-24 00:58:15 +00:00

Replying to zooko:

#2247 was a duplicate of this.

No, #2247 is to document the dependency on pywin32, which isn't the same proposed solution as this, so not a duplicate.

Replying to [zooko](/tahoe-lafs/trac-2024-07-25/issues/142#issuecomment-61968): > #2247 was a duplicate of this. No, #2247 is to document the dependency on pywin32, which isn't the same proposed solution as this, so not a duplicate.

daira commented

2015-10-28 23:51:32 +00:00

This has increased in urgency because the Magic Folder code depends on Twisted >= 15.2.0 even on Windows (see #2518), and Twisted depends on pywin32. The previous workaround we were using of depending only on Twisted >= 11.1.0, <= 12.1.0 for Windows (when pywin32 is not already installed) is no longer tenable.