sander/pleft — Issue #44: bug in tools\pleft-bootstrap.py (?)
Author: abrcam
Created: 2012-02-05 18:16:16+00:00
State: open

Hi Sander,

I was trying to install pleft on Win7x64. I have Python 2.7 from ActiveState installed and configured and also the PLENV variable. Upon issuing `python p:\pleft\tools\pleft-bootstrap.py %PLENV%` I get:

```
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "tools\pleft-bootstrap.py", line 1512, in
main()
File "tools\pleft-bootstrap.py", line 540, in main
after_install(options, home_dir)
File "tools\pleft-bootstrap.py", line 1144, in after_install
subprocess.call([join(home_dir, 'bin', 'pip'), 'install', '--requirement=tools/requirements.txt'])
File "P:\python27\lib\subprocess.py", line 486, in call
return Popen(*popenargs, **kwargs).wait()
File "P:\python27\lib\subprocess.py", line 672, in __init__
errread, errwrite)
File "P:\python27\lib\subprocess.py", line 882, in _execute_child
startupinfo)
WindowsError: [Error 2] The system cannot find the file specified
```

Looking into p:\pleft\tools\pleft-bootstrap.py#L1143, the path is actually different than the one created in PLENV. There is no `bin` directory and `pip.exe` is actually in `Scripts`. So I changed `'bin'` to `'Scripts'` to read:

```python
subprocess.call([join(home_dir, 'Scripts', 'pip'),
'install', '--requirement=tools/requirements.txt'])
```

And re-executing `python p:\pleft\tools\pleft-bootstrap.py %PLENV%` it starts to download and install the 4 required packages but fails at MySQL-python-1.2.3:

```
Downloading/unpacking Django>=1.3 (from -r tools/requirements.txt (line 1))
Downloading Django-1.3.1.tar.gz (6.5Mb): 6.5Mb downloaded
Running setup.py egg_info for package Django

Downloading/unpacking gunicorn>=0.13.4 (from -r tools/requirements.txt (line 2))
Downloading gunicorn-0.13.4.tar.gz (283Kb): 283Kb downloaded
Running setup.py egg_info for package gunicorn

warning: no files found matching '*' under directory 'debian'
Downloading/unpacking MySQL-python>=1.2.3 (from -r tools/requirements.txt (line 3))
Downloading MySQL-python-1.2.3.tar.gz (70Kb): 70Kb downloaded
Running setup.py egg_info for package MySQL-python
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 14, in
File "z:\env\pleft\build\MySQL-python\setup.py", line 15, in
metadata, options = get_config()
File "setup_windows.py", line 7, in get_config
serverKey = _winreg.OpenKey(_winreg.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, options['registry_key'])
WindowsError: [Error 2] The system cannot find the file specified
Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
Traceback (most recent call last):

File "", line 14, in

File "z:\env\pleft\build\MySQL-python\setup.py", line 15, in

metadata, options = get_config()

File "setup_windows.py", line 7, in get_config

serverKey = _winreg.OpenKey(_winreg.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, options['registry_key'])

WindowsError: [Error 2] The system cannot find the file specified

----------------------------------------
Command python setup.py egg_info failed with error code 1
Storing complete log in F:\Users\Bogdan\AppData\Roaming\pip\pip.log
```

I see that it tries to open the registry key `HKLM\SOFTWARE\MySQL AB\MySQL Server 5.0` which does not exist because I have MySQL 5.5 installed (it's also installed from a zip package, and not the .exe installer). I then tried to install mysql-python in my core python 2.7 distribution using pypm to see if it fails in the same way and it did not, it installed just fine:

```
F:\ProgramData>pypm install mysql-python
The following packages will be installed into "%APPDATA%\Python" (2.7):
mysql-python-1.2.3
Get: [pypm-free.activestate.com] mysql-python 1.2.3
Installing mysql-python-1.2.3
```

Any tips? I could install the ancient MySQL 5.0 but if you can think of a way to make it work without that then I think that will be better.

Cheers