Windows paths with spaces in it break grokproject/buildout

I tried it outside a virtualenv based setup (on the 1.0a1 to be exact), and it happens there too.

"I suspect that this issue may be somewhere in the eggbasket precompilation phase." Errr, eggbasket has no precompilation phase that I know off... :-) The mentioned py_compile.py file is not in eggbasket. Precompiling might be an option settable in the ~/.buidout/default.cfg file - not sure. I don't think I can do anything about it. Posting a traceback might give some pointers though.

BTW, note that since my move about two months ago I do not yet have an internet connection at home. And at my work we have not yet done any grok projects. And I am not using Windows. So it is hard for me to debug problems like this, sorry.

I've put this in the eggbasket department because I know we didn't
have a problem with buildouts in windows before then (if at least you
create the buildout in a path without spaces in it itself). Of course
it might be something else.

Thanks for letting us know you're not very available to debug this,
Maurits. I'll try to bug other people about it.

this is the output I get if I don't specify an eggs-dir:

(groktest) D:\groktest>grokproject Sample
Enter user (Name of an initial administrator user): grok
Enter passwd (Password for the initial administrator user):
Downloading info about versions...
Invoking zc.buildout...
Develop: 'D:\\groktest\\Sample\\.'
Installing eggbasket.
Getting distribution for 'grok==1.0a1'.
eggbasket: Distributions are not installed. A tarball will be downloaded.
eggbasket: Distributions are not installed. A tarball will be downloaded.
eggbasket: Downloading http://grok.zope.org/releaseinfo/grok-eggs-1.0a1.tgz ...
eggbasket: Downloading http://grok.zope.org/releaseinfo/grok-eggs-1.0a1.tgz ...
eggbasket: Finished downloading.
eggbasket: Finished downloading.
eggbasket: Extracting tarball contents...
eggbasket: Extracting tarball contents...
eggbasket: Installing eggs to C:\Documents and Settings\jm\.buildout\eggs which will take a while...
eggbasket: Installing eggs to C:\Documents and Settings\jm\.buildout\eggs which will take a while...
Getting distribution for 'grok==1.0a1'.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python24\Lib\py_compile.py", line 164, in ?
    main()
  File "C:\Python24\Lib\py_compile.py", line 159, in main
    compile(filename, doraise=True)
  File "C:\Python24\Lib\py_compile.py", line 115, in compile
    f = open(file, 'U')
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'c:\\documents'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python24\Lib\py_compile.py", line 164, in ?
    main()
  File "C:\Python24\Lib\py_compile.py", line 159, in main
    compile(filename, doraise=True)
  File "C:\Python24\Lib\py_compile.py", line 115, in compile
    f = open(file, 'U')
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'c:\\documents'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python24\Lib\py_compile.py", line 164, in ?
    main()
  File "C:\Python24\Lib\py_compile.py", line 159, in main
    compile(filename, doraise=True)
  File "C:\Python24\Lib\py_compile.py", line 115, in compile
    f = open(file, 'U')
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'c:\\documents'
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Can you go to your default.cfg and change the eggs-directory line to point to
"C:\Documents and Settings\<USERNAME>\.buildout\eggs" so *with quotes" added? That might work.

trying that gave me this error:
OSError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument: 'D:\\grok\\Sample\\"C:\\Documents and Settings\\jm\\.buildout\\eggs"'
Probably because there is a check if the second is a ':' or something...

using
eggs-directory = C:\Docume~1\<USERNAME>\.buildout\eggs
works, however

See also Bug #317081 (which I marked as a duplicate of this one)

I think I fixed this in r97358 (not released yet) with an extra check in the create_buildout_default_file in grokproject/utils.py:

     eggs_dir = os.path.join(default_dir, 'eggs')
     if not os.path.isdir(eggs_dir):
         os.mkdir(eggs_dir)
+ if sys.platform == 'win32':
+ import win32api
+ eggs_dir = win32api.GetShortPathName(eggs_dir)

Please check if this actually fixes it.

As reported on 2009-02-28 I committed a change that should fix this windows issue but heard nothing from real-life windows users yet. Testing is welcome. Oh, the last two released grokproject versions (1.0a3 and 1.0a4) have this fix so I will mark this as 'fix released'. Please reopen if this does not fix it.

Some more windows issues were fixed in z3c.recipe.eggbasket 0.4.2 which I just released today. This package version is only used by grokproject trunk so that would need a release (and I do not have the right to make a grokproject release).

And yes, as you may have noticed, I am going through the issues assigned to me on launchpad. :-)