Cannot install Kicost on Windows

[romain145]

and documentation link gives a 404 error.

Steps performed:

1. clone the Kicost repo
2. invoke python setup.py build
3. invoke python setup.py install
4. Invoke kicost

Z:\git\KiCost>kicost
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python37\Scripts\kicost-script.py", line 6, in <module>
    from pkg_resources import load_entry_point
  File "C:\Python37\lib\site-packages\pkg_resources\__init__.py", line 3191, in <module>
    @_call_aside
  File "C:\Python37\lib\site-packages\pkg_resources\__init__.py", line 3175, in _call_aside
    f(*args, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Python37\lib\site-packages\pkg_resources\__init__.py", line 3204, in _initialize_master_working_set
    working_set = WorkingSet._build_master()
  File "C:\Python37\lib\site-packages\pkg_resources\__init__.py", line 583, in _build_master
    ws.require(__requires__)
  File "C:\Python37\lib\site-packages\pkg_resources\__init__.py", line 900, in require
    needed = self.resolve(parse_requirements(requirements))
  File "C:\Python37\lib\site-packages\pkg_resources\__init__.py", line 786, in resolve
    raise DistributionNotFound(req, requirers)
pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: The 'babel>=2.6' distribution was not found and is required by kicost

Note: Wheel==0.23.0 has already been installed from requirement.py. Are the other packages also required?

Z:\git\KiCost>pip install babel==2.6
Collecting babel==2.6
  Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/b8/ad/c6f60602d3ee3d92fbed87675b6fb6a6f9a38c223343ababdb44ba201f10/Babel-2.6.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl (8.1MB)
     |████████████████████████████████| 8.1MB 3.3MB/s
Requirement already satisfied: pytz>=0a in c:\python37\lib\site-packages (from babel==2.6) (2019.2)
ERROR: kicost 1.1.2 requires beautifulsoup4>=4.3.2, which is not installed.
ERROR: kicost 1.1.2 requires CurrencyConverter>=0.13, which is not installed.
ERROR: kicost 1.1.2 requires future, which is not installed.
ERROR: kicost 1.1.2 requires lxml>=3.7.2, which is not installed.
ERROR: kicost 1.1.2 requires requests>=2.18.4, which is not installed.
ERROR: kicost 1.1.2 requires tqdm>=4.30.0, which is not installed.
ERROR: kicost 1.1.2 requires XlsxWriter>=0.7.3, which is not installed.
Installing collected packages: babel
Successfully installed babel-2.6.0

Should all these be added to the requirements.txt file?

[romain145]

Note: after installing all these packages by hand plus wxPython, KiCost starts successfully.

[hildogjr]

All KiCost requirements are listed by requirements variable at setup.py file. But I am not a expert in Python package and this file was present some issues, since I added the post_install_setup() function to run some after installation configurations (this version is beta and not officially on PyPI).

Basically, now it is needed to install the pywin32 in the Windows case and run kicost --setup command line, that make all the configuration integration Eeschema-KiCost (add KiCost to BOm list, add the standards fields, save the typing from user, add a shortcut to KiCost in case of GUI installation, ...).

Is the command kicost --setup working for you? Do you mind to give a look on setup.py?

[romain145]

Sorry I'm no expert in Python... By following this, it installs the dependencies: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1471994/what-is-setup-py

Now only wsPython is missing, which can be solved by uncommenting the line in setup.py. After doing this and running pip install . KiCost can be launched.

[hildogjr]

@romain145, which line did you uncomment? which OS did you try? If Windows, did I automatically get pywin32 python package? (wsPython is not automatically installed, some users ask me to do that, but I have to be asked on KiCost installation with you want to download thi package).

[romain145]

Installation with pip fails on a new windows system. Steps to reproduce:

1. Install Python 3.8.3, and add it to the environment variables
2. pip install kicost #this installs kicost1.1.4 and its dependencies
3. run kicost #this gives the following error

   C:\Users\Romain>kicost
   You don't have the wxPython dependence to run the GUI interface. Run once of the follow commands in terminal to install them:
   pip3 install -U wxPython # For Windows & macOS
   pip install -U -f https://extras.wxpython.org/wxPython4/extras/linux/gtk3/ubuntu-16.04 wxPython # For Linux 16.04
   Or download from last version from <https://wxpython.org/pages/downloads/>

4. pip3 install -U wxPython
5. run kicost #this gives the following error

   
   C:\Users\Romain>kicost
   Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "C:\Users\Romain\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38-32\Scripts\kicost-script.py", line 11, in <module>
   load_entry_point('kicost==1.1.4', 'console_scripts', 'kicost')()
   File "c:\users\romain\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\site-packages\kicost\__main__.py", line 253, in main
   kicost_gui() # Use the user gui if no input is given.
   File "c:\users\romain\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\site-packages\kicost\kicost_gui.py", line 1065, in kicost_gui
   frame = formKiCost(None)
   File "c:\users\romain\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\site-packages\kicost\kicost_gui.py", line 367, in __init__
   fgSizer1.Add(self.m_gauge_process, 1, wx.ALL|wx.EXPAND|wx.ALIGN_CENTER_HORIZONTAL|wx.ALIGN_CENTER_VERTICAL, 5)
   wx._core.wxAssertionError: C++ assertion "!(flags & (wxALIGN_BOTTOM | wxALIGN_CENTRE_VERTICAL)) || !(flags & (wxALIGN_RIGHT | wxALIGN_CENTRE_HORIZONTAL))" failed at ..\..\src\common\sizer.cpp(1453) in wxGridSizer::DoInsert(): wxEXPAND flag will be overridden by alignment flags```

[hildogjr]

Please, report kicost --info information (with some library versions).

[romain145]

C:\Users\Romain>kicost --info KiCost v.1.1.4.at Python 3.8.3.on Windows-10-10.0.19041-SP0(32bit).Graphical library: 4.1.0 msw (phoenix) wxWidgets 3.1.4.

[hildogjr]

Are KiCost working fine as CLI (terminal) interface?

[romain145]

It does not run fine, but this may be another issue with the BOM list...

C:\Users\Romain\projects\jal>kicost -i jal.xml
Progress:   0%|                                                                               | 0/40 [00:00<?, ?part/s]Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\Romain\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38-32\Scripts\kicost-script.py", line 11, in <module>
    load_entry_point('kicost==1.1.4', 'console_scripts', 'kicost')()
  File "c:\users\romain\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\site-packages\kicost\__main__.py", line 306, in main
    kicost(in_file=args.input, eda_name=args.eda,
  File "c:\users\romain\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\site-packages\kicost\kicost.py", line 251, in kicost
    api_partinfo_kitspace.query_part_info(parts, distributor_dict, currency)
  File "c:\users\romain\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\site-packages\kicost\distributors\api_partinfo_kitspace.py", line 353, in query_part_info
    get_part_info(queries[slc], query_parts[slc], query_part_stock_code[slc])
  File "c:\users\romain\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\site-packages\kicost\distributors\api_partinfo_kitspace.py", line 197, in get_part_info
    results = api_partinfo_kitspace.query(query, distributors)
  File "c:\users\romain\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\site-packages\kicost\distributors\api_partinfo_kitspace.py", line 135, in query
    raise Exception('One of the internal Kitspace services may experiencing problems. Contact the Kitspace support.')
Exception: One of the internal Kitspace services may experiencing problems. Contact the Kitspace support.
Progress:   0%|                                                                               | 0/40 [01:00<?, ?part/s]

[hildogjr]

The GUI problem appear to be same as #412

The CLI problem appear to be the Kitspace server offline. Not really a problem of KiCost code.

[FlYnN91]

@hildogjr I've just installed KiCost and seeing the same issue. Installed via pip3. Seems like a long time for the Kitspace server to be offline?

KiCost v.1.1.4.at Python 3.8.6.on Windows-10-10.0.19041-SP0(64bit).Graphical library: 4.1.0 msw (phoenix) wxWidgets 3.1.4.

edit: I can run in CLI with no errors.

[hildogjr]

Yes, before was reported two behaviours:

1. Not running even in CLI mode (server problem).
2. The GUI needs to be fix, so this issue here is duplicated from #412

[hildogjr]

I will close this, since already exist a ticket open for.