[tahoe-dev] Installation error

[Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn]

On May 28, 2009, at 22:44 PM, John wrote:

> Zooko, thanks for the fix. However, I have 2 new problems (darcs  
> not found and No module named win32api):

The darcs thing is just a warning -- the only improvement would be to  
make it smart enough to know when it doesn't need to warn about that.

The other thing is this issue:

http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/ticket/142 # pywin32 can't be  
installed with setuptools

Would you please try the following experiment?  Edit _auto_deps.py  
(careful -- the "_auto_deps.py" in the root of the package, not the  
one in src/allmydata/) and comment-in the lines that say if on  
Windows, require pywin32.

Then try building again and see if it works.  If so, great!  I was  
wrong when I wrote that comment saying that it does work, or  
setuptools or pywin32 have improved since then.  If it doesn't work,  
then manually install pywin32 from http://sourceforge.net/projects/ 
pywin32/ and then help me think of a better way to handle this.

Thanks!

Regards,

Zooko