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Bots Windows-installer is outdated #67

Open bf-ckiendl opened 4 years ago

bf-ckiendl commented 4 years ago

The Windows-installer is for Bots 3.2.0. I coincidentally saw at PyPi that there is a version 3.3.0, but I cannot update my installation because...

Collecting bots
  Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/f2/b0/897cccaafb5a2f6e6ec26b4248cfd2bfc2ba680d58cb4e1ad898a96dbe27/bots-3.3.0-py2-none-any.whl (551kB)
     |################################| 552kB 595kB/s
Installing collected packages: bots
  Found existing installation: bots 3.2.0
ERROR: Cannot uninstall 'bots'. It is a distutils installed project and thus we cannot accurately determine which files belong to it which would lead to only a partial uninstall.

This means that, in practice, there is no documentation on how to install the current Bots on Windows. In combination with #66, it means that there is no documentation on how to install a functioning Bots on Windows at all.

I'll see if I can remove the distutils Bots installation and reinstall it through pip with the installer-based dependencies intact, but even if that works, it is far from ideal.

bf-ckiendl commented 4 years ago

Word of advice for similarly afflicted people: pip's --ignore-installed does not work, it leads to django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: Error loading psycopg2 module: No module named psycopg2.

eino-makitalo commented 4 years ago

Also missing readme.rst

`(env) c:\myvirtualenv>pip install bots Downloading/unpacking bots Running setup.py (path:D:\meyer\env\build\bots\setup.py) egg_info for package bots Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 17, in File "D:\meyer\env\build\bots\setup.py", line 54, in '\n\n' + File "D:\meyer\env\build\bots\setup.py", line 46, in read with io.open(fn, encoding=kwargs.get('encoding', 'utf8')) as fd: FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'D:\meyer\env\bui ld\bots\readme.rst' Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info: Traceback (most recent call last):

File "", line 17, in

File "D:\meyer\env\build\bots\setup.py", line 54, in 

'\n\n' +

File "D:\meyer\env\build\bots\setup.py", line 46, in read

with io.open(fn, encoding=kwargs.get('encoding', 'utf8')) as fd:

FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'D:\meyer\env\build\ bots\readme.rst'

Cleaning up...`