On 17/01/13 03:28, knuttila @dslextreme.com wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 11:42 PM, David-Sarah Hopwood 
> <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> 
>     Unfortunately the precompiled "egg" for that dependency is missing for 
> 64-bit Python 2.7
>     on Windows:
> 
>     
> https://tahoe-lafs.org/source/tahoe-lafs/deps/tahoe-lafs-dep-eggs/README.html
> 
>     which is why it tried to compile from source.
> 
> Agreed. And I see someone has added this now, so going to the twisted site 
> should
> no longer be necessary. Thx! (we'll test that btw and report back :)

Yes, thanks to Dcoder for that.

[...]
> Agreed. And in fact, it does work. (I've confessed to goofing on the path 
> already. With
> appropriate repairs, all works fine)
> 
>     - Do you have Python 3.x installed?
> 
> This is a great point. I missed on detailing the Python 2.7 install. (which 
> worked fine of
> course, but without that information, it's hard to parse some of the rest of 
> the mail)
> 
> (there is no Python 3.x install on this box)

For future reference (and anyone else it affects), there's a bug that makes 
Tahoe not
run on Windows if Python 3.x is installed.

>     - What is the first line of C:\tahoe-lafs\bin\tahoe.pyscript ?
>     - What version of Python, if any, is first on the PATH? (i.e. what does
>       "python -V" report)
> 
> 
> I shall report on this from the office in the morning. (no machine access)

No need for the first line of tahoe.pyscript if it is working as documented now.

The Python version still might be useful for the pywin32 issue.

>     It shouldn't be necessary to install pywin32. If you uninstall pywin32 
> (from Add/Remove
>     Programs), what error message does it give exactly?
> 
> Yeh. I googled it to get the repair, but didn't write it down. It was a 
> fairly generic 
> sort of "missing win32 api" sounding message. We're about to do a clean 
> install, and
> will definitely faithfully record messages. (sometimes, the energy in pushing 
> to get
> something working leads to blank sheets of paper at the wrong times....)

Thanks.

-- 
David-Sarah Hopwood ⚥

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