614199 - cfx does not launch from within "Documents and settings"

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Add-on SDK Graveyard :: General, defect, P2)

Description

[Daniel]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; sv-SE; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: 0.9

Jetpack does not seem to put path within double quotes causing paths with spaces to break.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
* Windows XP, SP3
* Python 2.7

Extraciting jetpack to a folder as:
C:\Documents and Settings\user.name\My documents\Projects\Jetpack-Test\jetpack-sdk-0.9>

And then running "cfx docs" gives this:
(C:\Documents and Settings\user.name\My documents\Projects\Jetpack-Test\jetpack-sdk-0.9) C:\Documents and Settings\user.name\My documents\Projects\Jetpack-Test\jetpack-sdk-0.9\bin>cfx docs
python: can't open file 'C:\Documents': [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Actual Results:  
Error message given as:
python: can't open file 'C:\Documents': [Errno 2] No such file or directory

Expected Results:  
If I move/copy the jetpack folder to c:\jetpack-sdk-0.9 it works as expected:
(C:\jetpack-sdk-0.9) C:\jetpack-sdk-0.9>cfx docs
One moment.
Opening web browser to http://127.0.0.1:8888.

What I assume is that jetpack tries to open 
C:\Documents and settings
instead of
"C:\Documents and settings"
Where the first yields a path of just C:\Documents (which does not exist) and to arguments ('and' and 'settings').

Comment 1

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

Hmm, indeed!

Note that we're planning to start recommending that folks use the Add-on SDK with the MozillaBuild terminal, since it provides a better environment for using the SDK in a variety of respects, including this one (it doesn't have this problem).

To use the MozillaBuild terminal, download MozillaBuild from <http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/libraries/win32/MozillaBuildSetup-Latest.exe> and then run its start-l10n.bat file to open the terminal.

Keep in mind that you'll be in a Unix-like environment where changing to the SDK directory is the following command:

  cd /c/Documents\ and\ Settings/user.name/My\ documents/Projects/Jetpack-Test/jetpack-sdk-0.9

Comment 2

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

Erm, also, if you use MozillaBuild, you'll need to activate the SDK using the following command (from within the top-level SDK directory) instead of the Windows version of it:

  source bin/activate

(Basically, you then use the SDK as if you are on a *nix system rather than Windows.)

Comment 3

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

(automatic reprioritization of 1.0 bugs)

Comment 4

[Wes Kocher (:KWierso) (Not reading bugmail; email directly if needed)]

(Pushing all open bugs to the --- milestone for the new triage system)

Comment 5

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

Unassigning myself from bugs I am not actively working on.

Comment 6

[Wes Kocher (:KWierso) (Not reading bugmail; email directly if needed)]

I'm not able to reproduce this on my WinXP virtual machine with SDK 1.4.3.

C:\Documents and Settings\XPMUser\addon-sdk-1.4.3>bin\activate.bat
Welcome to the Add-on SDK. Run 'cfx docs' for assistance.

(C:\Documents and Settings\XPMUser\addon-sdk-1.4.3) C:\Documents and Settings\XP
MUser\addon-sdk-1.4.3>cfx docs
Generating documentation...

(C:\Documents and Settings\XPMUser\addon-sdk-1.4.3) C:\Documents and Settings\XP
MUser\addon-sdk-1.4.3>




Not sure if it was fixed IN 1.4 (haven't tried any of the prior versions in my VM), but it no longer seems to be happening for me.

Please reopen if you're still having this problem.