installation issues: 2x failed install, deleted choosenim cache.

[shirleyquirk]

on Arch, completely fresh pip installation

pip -V pip 20.3.1 from /usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pip (python 3.9)

pip install faster-than-requests

Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable
Collecting faster-than-requests
Downloading faster_than_requests-3572925.zip (1.7 MB)
|████████████████████████████████| 1.7 MB 365 kB/s 
ERROR: Requested faster-than-requests from https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/8f/f0/11be00462bf64c327f73fb2696fc8f0c9e0cd495369569f0f0d6cded5c55/faster_than_requests-3572925.zip#sha256=24f9b9d9fb81dbfac8af4ff3672bed0d99b566e7d64f4efeb8bf96932a4700d4 has different version in metadata: '20.10.19'

pip install faster-than-requests --isolated --disable-pip-version-check --no-cache-dir --no-binary :all: Same error

some googling, some error messages, i figure out a recent version

pip install faster-than-requests==21.3.3 --isolated --disable-pip-version-check --no-cache-dir --no-binary :all:

Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable
Collecting faster-than-requests==21.3.3
Downloading faster_than_requests-21.03.03.zip (4.9 MB)
|████████████████████████████████| 4.9 MB 49 kB/s 
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
command: /usr/bin/python -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/tmp/pip-install-bv4rw1k1/faster-than-requests_e6780c42abe9435aa3553d5f39c05f5d/setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'/tmp/pip-install-bv4rw1k1/faster-than-requests_e6780c42abe9435aa3553d5f39c05f5d/setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' egg_info --egg-base /tmp/pip-pip-egg-info-ia0zpc0n
cwd: /tmp/pip-install-bv4rw1k1/faster-than-requests_e6780c42abe9435aa3553d5f39c05f5d/
Complete output (44 lines):
WARNING: The wheel package is not available.
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
command: /usr/bin/python -u -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/tmp/pip-wheel-lxnl7865/choosenim-install_2ea2cc1d007540b6b320e7cfd4b97ff2/setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'/tmp/pip-wheel-lxnl7865/choosenim-install_2ea2cc1d007540b6b320e7cfd4b97ff2/setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' bdist_wheel -d /tmp/pip-wheel-4tgqti50
cwd: /tmp/pip-wheel-lxnl7865/choosenim-install_2ea2cc1d007540b6b320e7cfd4b97ff2/
Complete output (6 lines):
usage: setup.py [global_opts] cmd1 [cmd1_opts] [cmd2 [cmd2_opts] ...]
or: setup.py --help [cmd1 cmd2 ...]
or: setup.py --help-commands
or: setup.py cmd --help

  error: invalid command 'bdist_wheel'
  ----------------------------------------
  ERROR: Failed building wheel for choosenim-install
ERROR: Failed to build one or more wheels
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/setuptools/installer.py", line 75, in fetch_build_egg
    subprocess.check_call(cmd)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/subprocess.py", line 373, in check_call
    raise CalledProcessError(retcode, cmd)
subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['/usr/bin/python', '-m', 'pip', '--disable-pip-version-check', 'wheel', '--no-deps', '-w', '/tmp/tmp8mwxgce0', '--quiet', 'choosenim_install']' returned non-zero exit status 1.

The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/tmp/pip-install-bv4rw1k1/faster-than-requests_e6780c42abe9435aa3553d5f39c05f5d/setup.py", line 2, in <module>
    setuptools.setup(package_data = {"": ["*.nim", "*.nims", "*.cfg", "*.dll", "*.so", "*.h", "*.hpp"]})
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/setuptools/__init__.py", line 152, in setup
    _install_setup_requires(attrs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/setuptools/__init__.py", line 147, in _install_setup_requires
    dist.fetch_build_eggs(dist.setup_requires)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/setuptools/dist.py", line 721, in fetch_build_eggs
    resolved_dists = pkg_resources.working_set.resolve(
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 766, in resolve
    dist = best[req.key] = env.best_match(
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 1051, in best_match
    return self.obtain(req, installer)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 1063, in obtain
    return installer(requirement)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/setuptools/dist.py", line 780, in fetch_build_egg
    return fetch_build_egg(self, req)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/setuptools/installer.py", line 77, in fetch_build_egg
    raise DistutilsError(str(e)) from e
distutils.errors.DistutilsError: Command '['/usr/bin/python', '-m', 'pip', '--disable-pip-version-check', 'wheel', '--no-deps', '-w', '/tmp/tmp8mwxgce0', '--quiet', 'choosenim_install']' returned non-zero exit status 1.
----------------------------------------

ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: python setup.py egg_info Check the logs for full command output.

> pip install wheel
> pip install faster-than-requests=21.3.3

works! great. but I saw a 'choosenim_install' in there, i guess there was some compilation going on, and i'm sure it's changed my choosenim from devel to stable, let me see if i need to switch it back:

> choosenim show

Prompt: Can choosenim record and send anonymised telemetry data? [y/n]
    ... Anonymous aggregate user analytics allow us to prioritise
    ... fixes and features based on how, where and when people use Nim.
    ... For more details see: https://goo.gl/NzUEPf.

You deleted my choosenim?!  how incredibly rude! 

[juancarlospaco]

Choosenim deleted fixed by https://github.com/juancarlospaco/choosenim_install/commit/f195e7ede8fb1d5bed38da9aa94fc6309f2506ed

The problem was some people have problems with broken choosenim, but I guess they can delete it themselves.

[juancarlospaco]

ERROR: has different version in metadata: '20.10.19'

Thats a PIP/Pypi Bug that they never fixed, file is there in the server, but server fails to serve it.

  error: invalid command 'bdist_wheel'
  ----------------------------------------
  ERROR: Failed building wheel for choosenim-install
ERROR: Failed to build one or more wheels

Thats a PIP Bug that they never fixed, PIP depends on wheel package internally, but they do not directly depend on it. So you should install it by yourself if you have errors or warnings. This is Pythons run-time import resolution, kinda try: import wheel except: ... but often fails. Nim or pure Python code wont need wheel but still PIP fails if you do not have it installed, or not, no way to know until you run it.

works! great.

Awesome.

You deleted my choosenim?! how incredibly rude!

It sucks, but it is fixed now.

[juancarlospaco]

Any improvement or change you want to make send Pull Request, I will merge.

I hope that responds all questions.

[shirleyquirk]

thanks for the quick fix! i do get that pip bugs are out of your control, (same goes for choosenim bugs, i've certainly had a couple broken installs) The choosenim deletion is only a tiny inconvenience, and only relevant for those of us who keep a bunch of versions around for testing (and have slow internet heh), and needs to be balanced against making this package work well for python users. I'll think about anything else i can do that might make this better and submit a pr if i come up with something. Cheers

[juancarlospaco]

About choosenim Bugs, feel free to give feedback/comments here: https://github.com/nim-lang/RFCs/issues/374#issue-873734945

About PIP Bugs, I tried to make a PIP that just works here, needs work: https://github.com/juancarlospaco/plz

:)

[shirleyquirk]

pip is supposed to fallback to a setup.py if wheel isn't found, it does this for nimporter for example, maybe that's something i could add. the failure of pip install faster-than-requests without specifying the version is infuriating, my sympathies.