Can no longer build packages for windows, because of a web of conflicting dependencies.
There is no correct generic netifaces package generated, so have to pick one that is locked
to python3.8.. so we must build on 3.8... which is the normal version on ubuntu 20.04. so far
so good.
so build the binary with generate-win-installer, and we get a binary built:
but then we try to run it after extraction on windows
C:\Users\peter>sr3
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "runpy.py", line 194, in _run_module_as_main
File "runpy.py", line 87, in _run_code
File "C:\Program Files\metpx-sr3\bin\sr3.exe\__main__.py", line 17, in <module>
File "C:\Program Files\metpx-sr3\pkgs\sarracenia\sr.py", line 44, in <module>
import sarracenia.config
File "C:\Program Files\metpx-sr3\pkgs\sarracenia\config.py", line 50, in <module>
import sarracenia.flow
File "C:\Program Files\metpx-sr3\pkgs\sarracenia\flow\__init__.py", line 1602, in <module>
import sarracenia.flow.poll
File "C:\Program Files\metpx-sr3\pkgs\sarracenia\flow\poll.py", line 9, in <module>
import dateparser
File "C:\Program Files\metpx-sr3\pkgs\dateparser\__init__.py", line 4, in <module>
from .date import DateDataParser
File "C:\Program Files\metpx-sr3\pkgs\dateparser\date.py", line 13, in <module>
from dateparser.date_parser import date_parser
File "C:\Program Files\metpx-sr3\pkgs\dateparser\date_parser.py", line 11, in <module>
from .parser import parse
File "C:\Program Files\metpx-sr3\pkgs\dateparser\parser.py", line 10, in <module>
from dateparser.utils.strptime import strptime
File "C:\Program Files\metpx-sr3\pkgs\dateparser\utils\strptime.py", line 69, in <module>
__strptime = patch_strptime()
File "C:\Program Files\metpx-sr3\pkgs\dateparser\utils\strptime.py", line 40, in patch_strptime
_strptime_spec.loader.exec_module(_strptime)
AttributeError: 'zipimporter' object has no attribute 'exec_module'
Can no longer build packages for windows, because of a web of conflicting dependencies. There is no correct generic netifaces package generated, so have to pick one that is locked to python3.8.. so we must build on 3.8... which is the normal version on ubuntu 20.04. so far so good.
so build the binary with generate-win-installer, and we get a binary built:
but then we try to run it after extraction on windows
so I go look at that error and discover:
https://github.com/scrapinghub/dateparser/issues/849
which implies that we need to generate on python 3.10. but I don't have netifaces package for 3.10.
stuck.