bug in tools\pleft-bootstrap.py (?)

Hi Sander,

I was trying to install pleft on Win7x64. I have Python 2.7 from ActiveState installed and configured and also the PLENV variable. Upon issuing python p:\pleft\tools\pleft-bootstrap.py %PLENV% I get:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "tools\pleft-bootstrap.py", line 1512, in <module>
    main()
  File "tools\pleft-bootstrap.py", line 540, in main
    after_install(options, home_dir)
  File "tools\pleft-bootstrap.py", line 1144, in after_install
    subprocess.call([join(home_dir, 'bin', 'pip'), 'install', '--requirement=tools/requirements.txt'])
  File "P:\python27\lib\subprocess.py", line 486, in call
    return Popen(*popenargs, **kwargs).wait()
  File "P:\python27\lib\subprocess.py", line 672, in __init__
    errread, errwrite)
  File "P:\python27\lib\subprocess.py", line 882, in _execute_child
    startupinfo)
WindowsError: [Error 2] The system cannot find the file specified

Looking into p:\pleft\tools\pleft-bootstrap.py#L1143, the path is actually different than the one created in PLENV. There is no bin directory and pip.exe is actually in Scripts. So I changed 'bin' to 'Scripts' to read:

    subprocess.call([join(home_dir, 'Scripts', 'pip'),
                     'install', '--requirement=tools/requirements.txt'])

And re-executing python p:\pleft\tools\pleft-bootstrap.py %PLENV% it starts to download and install the 4 required packages but fails at MySQL-python-1.2.3:

Downloading/unpacking Django>=1.3 (from -r tools/requirements.txt (line 1))
  Downloading Django-1.3.1.tar.gz (6.5Mb): 6.5Mb downloaded
  Running setup.py egg_info for package Django

Downloading/unpacking gunicorn>=0.13.4 (from -r tools/requirements.txt (line 2))
  Downloading gunicorn-0.13.4.tar.gz (283Kb): 283Kb downloaded
  Running setup.py egg_info for package gunicorn

    warning: no files found matching '*' under directory 'debian'
Downloading/unpacking MySQL-python>=1.2.3 (from -r tools/requirements.txt (line 3))
  Downloading MySQL-python-1.2.3.tar.gz (70Kb): 70Kb downloaded
  Running setup.py egg_info for package MySQL-python
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 14, in <module>
      File "z:\env\pleft\build\MySQL-python\setup.py", line 15, in <module>
        metadata, options = get_config()
      File "setup_windows.py", line 7, in get_config
        serverKey = _winreg.OpenKey(_winreg.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, options['registry_key'])
    WindowsError: [Error 2] The system cannot find the file specified
    Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
    Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "<string>", line 14, in <module>

  File "z:\env\pleft\build\MySQL-python\setup.py", line 15, in <module>

    metadata, options = get_config()

  File "setup_windows.py", line 7, in get_config

    serverKey = _winreg.OpenKey(_winreg.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, options['registry_key'])

WindowsError: [Error 2] The system cannot find the file specified

----------------------------------------
Command python setup.py egg_info failed with error code 1
Storing complete log in F:\Users\Bogdan\AppData\Roaming\pip\pip.log

I see that it tries to open the registry key HKLM\SOFTWARE\MySQL AB\MySQL Server 5.0 which does not exist because I have MySQL 5.5 installed (it's also installed from a zip package, and not the .exe installer). I then tried to install mysql-python in my core python 2.7 distribution using pypm to see if it fails in the same way and it did not, it installed just fine:

F:\ProgramData>pypm install mysql-python
The following packages will be installed into "%APPDATA%\Python" (2.7):
 mysql-python-1.2.3
Get: [pypm-free.activestate.com] mysql-python 1.2.3
Installing mysql-python-1.2.3

Any tips? I could install the ancient MySQL 5.0 but if you can think of a way to make it work without that then I think that will be better.

Cheers

[sander]

Thanks for the bug report! I've never tested this myself in Windows, and clearly some things are not as cross-platform yet as they should be. Patches are welcome.

For now, if you just want to test Pleft, you can remove the mysql-python dependency in tools/requirements.txt. The easiest setup is with SQLite, which is included with Python. This is also the setup used in local_settings.py.debug.