pip 1.5rc3 is not generating script wrappers correctly

[pfmoore]

See the following:

PS 13:09 C:\Work\Scratch
>virtualenv --version
1.11rc3
PS 13:09 C:\Work\Scratch
>virtualenv test1
Using base prefix 'C:\\Apps\\Python33'
New python executable in test1\Scripts\python.exe
Installing setuptools, pip...done.
PS 13:09 C:\Work\Scratch
>test1\scripts\pip.exe --version
Fatal error in launcher: Failed to open script file "C:\Work\Scratch\test1\scripts\pip-script.py"
PS 13:09 C:\Work\Scratch

It looks like the exe script wrappers being generated are the old versions which use xxx-script.py.

[pfmoore]

This is a bug in distlib. See https://bitbucket.org/pypa/distlib/issue/38/scriptmaker-generated-executables-rely-on

[vsajip]

I'm just about ready to cut a new distlib release, but as well as the update to the launcher binaries, there's an earlier update I did to add a local component to the PEP 440 version (as pre recent changes to that PEP). Can the pip team confirm that the current tip revision of distlib doesn't cause problems for pip in any area, so that I can make the release? I'm not sure whether pip uses distlib.version or related functionality (IIRC there may have been some use for pre-release checking).

[dstufft]

I can give it a try, but it might be good for @pfmoore to do so, since he can test on Windows where this problem actually occurred?

[pfmoore]

What am I being asked to test? The script wrapper change worked when I tested it in distlib. It seems to me that Vinay is looking for verification that the other changes in this version of distlib don't cause problems.

Don't have much time right now, but I can try to build a release wheel and make sure it works. But the test is simply to take the rc virtualenv tarball, unpack it somwhere, do "python virtualenv.py foo" then "foo\Scripts\pip.exe" on Windows. It's building the release tarball (which I've never done) that'll take the time.

[vsajip]

It seems to me that Vinay is looking for verification that the other changes in this version of distlib don't cause problems.

Confirmed.

[dstufft]

My bad, I'll get this tested shortly.

[dstufft]

Running the test suite here #1407

[dstufft]

@vsajip Looks good to me.

[vsajip]

distlib 0.1.6 has been released on PyPI.

[dstufft]

Fixed Now!

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