433852 - add easy_install to MozillaBuild

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox Build System :: MozillaBuild, task)

Description

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

easy_install, http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/EasyInstall, uses /c/mozilla-build/python25/Scripts to install custom scripts.

We should add that to the path so that people can use that easily. In particular, I recommend installing compare-locales this way to localizers, which may find editing PATH settings themselves not so great.

Adjustments to PYTHONPATH are apparently not needed.

Other question, should we have easy_install already in MozillaBuild?

Comment 1

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

If you want easy_install, give me simple steps to install it and I'll look into it. Adding the PATH should be easy.

Comment 2

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

Nice :-). http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/EasyInstall#installing-easy-install has details, basically, get the ez_setup.py script there, get the right egg, right now, that's setuptools-0.6c8-py2.5.egg from http://pypi.python.org/packages/2.5/s/setuptools/
They have exe files there, but I don't know if those are installers.

Anyway, I just tested this in the hg test mozillabuild, if you run

python ez_setup.py

with the egg next to it, it will install fine, and not download anything, which I guess is what we want.

The egg has a shell script stub doing the same, but I'm not sure how hard it is to call into a shell script without triggering our ssh-agent hooks.

Comment 3

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

Attachment: add python/scripts to PATH

I needed to do a respin of 1.3 anyway, so I checked in this tiny patch. If you'd like to morph this bug to be about adding easy_install by default, that's fine, if you'd like to file another bug about that, that's also fine.

Comment 4

[Rain [:rain1] (inactive)]

It would be great if this gets into MozillaBuild 1.4, as it's needed for Mozmill to work on Windows.

I don't know about newer Python, but the version with MozillaBuild 1.3 (Python 2.5) creates exes without a manifest. This means that the installer detection stuff kicks in on Vista and above, and this is a problem.

Comment 5

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

I believe Python 2.5 is built with VC 2003, and 2.6 is built with VC 2009.

Comment 6

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

The installer exe is pretty crappy, it doesn't let you configure anything from the commandline. I found some instructions on how to install from the egg here, which seem to work:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/309412/how-to-setup-setuptools-for-python-26-on-windows

Comment 7

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

Ok, a few hacks later it seems to be working. Try the pre-release build here:
http://people.mozilla.com/~tmielczarek/MozillaBuildSetup-1.4pre.exe
(in about 15 minutes from now when it finishes uploading, anyway)

Comment 8

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

Fixed in:
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-build/rev/ba20efcac209
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-build/rev/fa45793470eb
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-build/rev/939fab300c0f

Comment 9

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

Ted, is there an eta when the new version (1.4) will be released? It would be nice to have an official build setup available.