Opened at 2014-06-24T18:10:05Z

Closed at 2016-03-26T23:12:51Z

#2247 closed defect (fixed)

document pywin32 dependency

Reported by: CyberAxe Owned by: daira
Priority: normal Milestone: 1.11.0
Component: packaging Version: 1.10.0
Keywords: windows pywin32 docs quickstart openitp-packaging Cc:
Launchpad Bug:

Description

I asked a new user to try the setup/install process with no help just using wiki and how to's and he was unable to install/setup Tahoe-lafs. Pywin32 instructions are missing but required for windows.

Change History (9)

comment:1 Changed at 2014-06-30T21:46:07Z by zooko

  • Resolution set to duplicate
  • Status changed from new to closed

This is a duplicate of #142 (pywin32 can't be installed with setuptools) combined with #2028 (Twisted endpoints introduce a dependency on pywin32). That is: the bug isn't that this dependency is undocumented in the install instructions, the bug is that this dependency isn't automatically resolved like the other dependencies are. That said, if it turns out that we can't remove this dependency entirely, or make it automatically resolved, then we will indeed need to document it.

comment:2 Changed at 2014-07-23T23:57:57Z by daira

  • Component changed from unknown to packaging
  • Keywords pywin32 docs quickstart added; pywin removed
  • Milestone changed from undecided to 1.11.0
  • Resolution duplicate deleted
  • Status changed from closed to reopened

Fixing either #142 or #2028 is too hard for 1.11, so we should document it for now.

Last edited at 2014-07-23T23:58:48Z by daira (previous) (diff)

comment:3 Changed at 2014-09-07T17:10:18Z by daira

  • Keywords openitp-packaging added

comment:4 Changed at 2014-09-25T16:09:10Z by daira

  • Status changed from reopened to new

comment:5 Changed at 2014-09-25T16:09:17Z by daira

  • Status changed from new to assigned

comment:6 Changed at 2014-09-25T16:31:51Z by zooko

  • Summary changed from pywin32 for windows isn't in documents - running or quickstart to document pywin32 dependency

comment:7 Changed at 2014-10-08T12:17:02Z by daira

  • Resolution set to invalid
  • Status changed from assigned to closed

We no longer need this now that #2028 is fixed.

comment:8 Changed at 2015-10-28T23:54:30Z by daira

  • Resolution invalid deleted
  • Status changed from closed to reopened

Reopening because this is the simplest short-term way of dealing with the fact that Magic Folder depends on Twisted >= 15.2.0, which depends on pywin32.

Last edited at 2015-10-28T23:55:00Z by daira (previous) (diff)

comment:9 Changed at 2016-03-26T23:12:51Z by warner

  • Milestone changed from 1.10.1 to 1.11.0
  • Resolution set to fixed
  • Status changed from reopened to closed

We now depend on pypiwin32, and pip installs it correctly on windows, so I think we can close this one again.

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