[pywin32-bugs] [ pywin32-Bugs-1799934 ] easy_install silently fails

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Bugs item #1799934, was opened at 2007-09-22 06:29
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Submitted By: Zooko O'Whielacronx (zooko)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: easy_install silently fails

Initial Comment:
If I install pywin32 by executing pywin32-210.win32-py2.5.exe , it works.

If I run "easy_install pywin32" then it claims that it is downloading and installing pywin32-210.win32-py2.5.exe , and after a while it claims that it has successfully installed it, but an attempt to use pywin32 yields errors like this:

$ python -c 'import win32process'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found.


I'm not sure whether this should be considered a bug in pywin32 or in easy_install, or both.

Regards,

Zooko

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>Comment By: Mark Hammond (mhammond)
Date: 2008-04-09 07:20

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I believe PJE recently fixed a bug in setuptools that was causing problems
with pywin32 as an egg.  Please try again after build 211 is released.

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Comment By: Zooko O'Whielacronx (zooko)
Date: 2008-01-26 01:17

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See also:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2007-July/007823.html


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Comment By: Mark Hammond (mhammond)
Date: 2007-10-01 09:33

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I've no idea - that too is an easy_install question.  I've never used
easy_install to install pywin32, and I've never recommended anyone else do
it either.

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Comment By: Zooko O'Whielacronx (zooko)
Date: 2007-10-01 08:57

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I will see if I can make the pywin32_postinstall.py stuff get done
automatically upon easy_install.

In the meantime, is there some way to make this failure loud instead of
silent?  How do you tell easy_install: yes, there is a package in the
expected format (.zip) in the expected place (pypi), but it isn't actually
going to work?


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Comment By: Mark Hammond (mhammond)
Date: 2007-09-22 09:57

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After install, pywin32_postinstall.py needs to be run, but ezsetup
apparently does not provide a facility to do that.  You may like to ask
them for such a facility.

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