Re: Pip on Windows

On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 7:30 PM, Jim Baker <[email protected]> wrote:
> I just tested with respect to Jython trunk, and pip now does work as
> expected. I believe this is the result of an accumulation of small
> compliance changes for Windows that Stefan and others have recently made, so
> this is really great!
>
> So on Windows we have the following:
>
> C:\Users\jimba>c:\jython2.7.1-rc1-A\bin\pip install yolk
> Collecting yolk
>   Downloading yolk-0.4.3.tar.gz (86kB)
>  [K    100% |################################| 92kB 100kB/s ta 0:00:01
>  [?25hRequirement already satisfied: setuptools in
> c:\jython2.7.1-rc1-a\lib\site-packages (from yolk)
> Installing collected packages: yolk
>   Running setup.py install for yolk ...  [?25ldone
>  [?25hSuccessfully installed yolk-0.4.3
>
> C:\Users\jimba>c:\jython2.7.1-rc1-A\bin\yolk.exe --list
> pip 9.0.1 has no metadata
> pytz 2016.10 has no metadata
> setuptools 28.8.0 has no metadata
> wsgiref         - 0.1.2        - active development
> (c:\jython2.7.1-rc1-a\lib)
> yolk            - 0.4.3        - active
>
> So ignoring some wrong for Windows terminal escape usage (presumably pip, or
> a vendored library it uses, assumes it's not running on Windows), this pip
> install works really well: it properly installs yolk, which is an exe that
> wraps Python (via the complex magic that's roughly equivalent to #! on
> Windows); and this yolk executable in turn is able to introspect the Jython
> installation to list installed packages.
>
> Note that we also bundle pip 9.0.1, which is the latest version. (Hurry,
> let's ship Jython 2.7.1 quick before an updated pip breaks on Jython, again!
> :)
>
> Given that the pip bug (http://bugs.jython.org/issue2521) was the only
> remaining blocker for 2.7.1, we should be ready to  for a release candidate.
> We may want to address some other problems in our bug list, but if so, this
> means updating the bug's priority/milestone accordingly.
>
> Thanks again for the great work!
Indeed! I should be able to put together a soft RC1 this evening.

Great work!

-Frank

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