Re: [Jython-dev] Jython 2.7.0 Release Candidate 2

[Jim B. <jim...@py...>]

These installer bugs are now fixed. We should be ready to try another soft
release candidate.

In addition, the Jython installer now will install setuptools and pip by
default (runs jython -m ensurepip) except for standalone jar (doesn't make
sense). One can also deselect this installation in the custom install.

- Jim

On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 2:03 PM, Jim Baker <jim...@py...> wrote:

> We have identified the following four bugs that need to be fixed for the
> next release candidate of Jython 2.7.0:
>
> http://bugs.jython.org/issue2297 - the installer on Windows currently
> assumes that jython.bat still exists, instead of its replacement, a native
> jython.exe installer. This problem slipped through because we were not
> testing the installer on Windows, assuming it was not platform dependent.
>
> I also plan to make the new Jython launcher script, src/shell/jython.py,
> which is wrapped as jython.exe by PyInstaller, be the default launcher on
> non-Windows platforms if CPython 2.7 is available, since we are going to be
> touching this codepath in the installer to fix this jython.bat vs
> jython.exe issue. Also, since the installer is touched, we should be able
> to add automatic installation of ensurepip.
>
> http://bugs.jython.org/issue2300 - the new Jython launcher (jython.py)
> currently swallows arguments. jython.py uses argparse, but the arg parsing
> needs more help because jython.py is then used as the launcher for tools
> like pip, yolk, etc. I have a fix that's almost ready to go.
>
> http://bugs.jython.org/issue2298 - setuptools currently doesn't check if
> the underlying platform is Windows, so it uses the wrong approach for
> building executable scripts. This is an easy fix, and we fixed the same
> issue in distlib. We are going to build our own wheel for now that we
> bundle as part of ensurepip, however I've been in contact with Jason
> Coombs, maintainer of setuptools to get this upstreamed once we have
> finalized our fixes. Vinay Sajip, the maintainer of distlib, is also
> working on an upstream fix for the changes we need.
>
> http://bugs.jython.org/issue2301 - ensurepip fails on Japanese locales,
> because of a problem in logging timestamps from the ensurepip module. Such
> timestamps are written like "日 3/29 14:55:13 2015". Naturally the last
> thing we want is for logging to cause failures like this! Should be an easy
> fix.
>
> So three fairly small bugs, plus one with straightforward changes to the
> installer. I hope to see a soft availability of the RC2 in the next few
> days.
>
> - Jim
>



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