791840 - use $VIRTUAL_ENV\Scripts\easy_install-script.py on windows for easy_install executable by default

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Release Engineering :: General, defect, P3)

Description

[Jeff Hammel]

see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=786885

calling `easy_install` on windows triggers some sort of horrible auth
thingy...because it has `install` in the name.  "Nice".

Ironically, we only need `easy_install` on windows for pywin32 and in
the future possible other binary dependencies:
http://hg.mozilla.org/build/mozharness/file/9ad3006c6c70/mozharness/base/python.py#l249

See also https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/520

The work around is to call `python path\to\easy_install-script.py`
which will be installed in $VIRTUAL_ENV\Scripts\ .

If this is set as the default whereby it can be used at
http://hg.mozilla.org/build/mozharness/file/9ad3006c6c70/mozharness/base/python.py#l162
then this wouldn't need to be set in configs.

Comment 1

[Jeff Hammel]

Attachment: use python path\to\easy_install script on windows to get around windows "security"

Comment 2

[Jeff Hammel]

pushed: http://hg.mozilla.org/build/mozharness/rev/a4683ce8ae43