5.1.2 Mac installer broken?

[gctwnl]

What steps will reproduce the problem?

I installed the update (my first update after installing and working with Spyder for the last 2 days). In the update, the kernel will not load (macOS Catalina):

NotADirectoryError: [Errno 20] Not a directory: '/Applications/Spyder.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python39.zip/debugpy/_vendored'

[ccordoba12]

Hey @gctwnl, thanks for reporting. That's a problem with the Mac installer only.

@mrclary, could you take a look at this one?

[dkmj]

installs fine but fails 'cannot load kernel'.

[mrclary]

PR #16337 should fix the issue. Note that this only affects IPython consoles that use the internal (same as Spyder) interpreter. External interpreters are not affected.

[mrclary]

Your options are: (a) use an external interpreter until 5.1.3 is released or (b) use the artifact from the pull request.

[mrclary]

For documentation, the full traceback:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "runpy.pyc", line 197, in _run_module_as_main
File "runpy.pyc", line 87, in _run_code
File "/Users/rclary/Applications/Spyder.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.9/spyder_kernels/console/__main__.py", line 23, in 
start.main()
File "/Users/rclary/Applications/Spyder.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.9/spyder_kernels/console/start.py", line 282, in main
from ipykernel.kernelapp import IPKernelApp
File "", line 1007, in _find_and_load
File "", line 986, in _find_and_load_unlocked
File "", line 664, in _load_unlocked
File "", line 627, in _load_backward_compatible
File "", line 259, in load_module
File "ipykernel/kernelapp.pyc", line 42, in 
File "", line 1007, in _find_and_load
File "", line 986, in _find_and_load_unlocked
File "", line 664, in _load_unlocked
File "", line 627, in _load_backward_compatible
File "", line 259, in load_module
File "ipykernel/ipkernel.pyc", line 20, in 
File "", line 1007, in _find_and_load
File "", line 986, in _find_and_load_unlocked
File "", line 664, in _load_unlocked
File "", line 627, in _load_backward_compatible
File "", line 259, in load_module
File "ipykernel/debugger.pyc", line 17, in 
File "", line 1007, in _find_and_load
File "", line 986, in _find_and_load_unlocked
File "", line 664, in _load_unlocked
File "", line 627, in _load_backward_compatible
File "", line 259, in load_module
File "debugpy/server/__init__.pyc", line 9, in 
File "", line 1007, in _find_and_load
File "", line 986, in _find_and_load_unlocked
File "", line 664, in _load_unlocked
File "", line 627, in _load_backward_compatible
File "", line 259, in load_module
File "debugpy/_vendored/__init__.pyc", line 18, in 
NotADirectoryError: [Errno 20] Not a directory: '/Users/rclary/Applications/Spyder.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python39.zip/debugpy/_vendored'

[ccordoba12]

Thanks for your help @mrclary! I'll wait a couple of days to see if other major problems appear, otherwise I'll release 5.1.3 with your fix.

However, we should find a way to automatically test our installers to avoid this problem in the future.

[mrclary]

However, we should find a way to automatically test our installers to avoid this problem in the future.

See #14138.
I'd love to figure out a way to run our unit tests inside our macOS application, but I don't know how to do that and it may not be possible.
Another option would be to have a separate set of unit tests specifically for the macOS application, although I don't know how to accomplish that either...
In the short term, probably the best thing is to just download the latest artifact, just prior to release, and perform a cursory verification (does it launch? is there any obvious issues?).

[IvanLiuTW]

Thanks for taking a look of my problem.

[ccordoba12]

@IvanLiuTW, please open a new issue about your problem because it's different from this one.

[IvanLiuTW]

ok, got it. Thanks for reply!