496535 - Add pywin32 extensions to MozillaBuild

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox Build System :: MozillaBuild, task)

Description

[Rain [:rain1] (inactive)]

pywin32 is required for getting stuff like Mozmill to work on Windows.

The problem with installing the extensions separately is that the installer looks for Python registry entries, and we don't add them with MozillaBuild. It'd be great if we just included them, thus side-stepping the problem entirely.

Comment 1

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

This is a real pain in the ass to do as part of the MozillaBuild build. The pywin32 installer doesn't have any sort of silent mode, and by default it autodetects the system Python and not the one in the staging directory that winds up as part of the MozillaBuild package. I tried the trick mhammond suggested here:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-win32/2009-January/008629.html

but couldn't get it to work.

Comment 2

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

Ok, I think I got it. Testing a patch now.

Comment 3

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

It looked like it installed, but it definitely doesn't work. I get "Entry point not found" dialogs complaining about things missing from pywintypes25.dll.

Comment 4

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

So yeah...the PyWin32 installer sticks stuff in windows/system32, which of course we don't package with MozillaBuild. I'm not about to make the MozillaBuild installer stick those files in windows/system32, either, so I think this is going to be WONTFIX. If you can figure out a way to make this work without needing those files in system32, then we can reopen and do it.

Comment 6

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

We want to try to get rid of pywin32 in bug 507300. I hope it will be possible. Having a way to run Mozmill from within the Mozilla Build system would be great.

Comment 7

[Chris Cooper [:coop] (he/him)]

Re-opening at Ted's suggestion. 

Turns out some releng tools also need the pywin32 extensions. We're pretty sure we don't need the bits that end up in windows/system32 tough.

Comment 8

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

Right, I talked to mhammond about this a while ago, and he said the files in windows/system32 are only necessary for implementing COM components in Python or something like that, so we can get away without them.

Comment 9

[Burak Yiğit Kaya [:BYK]]

I believe the patch I submitted to bug 580774 can help resolving this issue.

Comment 10

[Burak Yiğit Kaya [:BYK]]

(In reply to Burak Yiğit Kaya from comment #9)
> I believe the patch I submitted to bug 580774 can help resolving this issue.
Sorry, I meant bug 673132

Comment 11

[cmtalbert]

So, we aren't using pywin32 anymore in mozmill, and I'd like to remove the entire dependency that talos has on pywin32 as well.  If we do that, is there any need to bother with putting pywin32 into mozilla-build?

Comment 12

[Benjamin Smedberg]

No

Comment 13

[cmtalbert]

(In reply to Benjamin Smedberg  [:bsmedberg] from comment #12)
> No

Great, then for clarity's sake I'll dupe this bug over to the remove pywin32 bug.

Comment 14

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

It's not exactly a dupe but a wontfix for mozilla build.