Menubar doesn't work immediately when installing from git

[astrofrog]

[I should preface this by saying that it is not a spyder bug, but a problem that both spyder and glueviz have and need to find a solution for, so I am opening this in the hope that you have ideas on how to fix it properly]

Steps to reproduce the issue on MacOS X:

• conda create -n spyder-dev -c spyder-ide spyder
• conda remove spyder --force
• Install developer version of spyder
• Open spyder

At this point, the menubar (File, Edit, etc.) is not responsive, and one needs to switch to a different application and then back for it to work.

This is an issue I've brought up with the conda developers here but with no satisfactory conclusion. This problem can actually be demonstrated with a simple python script:

from PyQt4.QtGui import QApplication, QMainWindow, QMenu

app = QApplication([''])
main = QMainWindow()
mbar = main.menuBar()
menu = QMenu(mbar)
menu.setTitle("&File")
mbar.addMenu(menu)
main.show()
main.raise_()
app.exec_()

which can then be run with:

python script.py

Note that one way to get it to work is to run the script with:

python.app script.py

The reason this is not an issue with the stable releases of spyder is that the interpreter for the spyder script is set correctly to be python.app in those cases:

#!/bin/bash /Users/tom/miniconda3/envs/spyder-dev-3/bin/python.app

but when installing from git, the interpreter is then set to:

#!/Users/tom/miniconda3/envs/dev35/bin/python

I was curious whether you are able to reproduce this, and if so whether you have ideas for a solution?

cc @goanpeca

[ccordoba12]

It seems this was caused because I was using an old version of conda-build to create our beta packages. I tried with the latest conda-build (1.21.14) and python.app is added correctly to the spyder script shebang :-)

[astrofrog]

@ccordoba12 - just to be clear, this issue was not when installing conda package, but when installing from git directly using python setup.py install. Are you not able to reproduce that issue?

[ccordoba12]

I thought you were talking about our conda packages :-) Yes, I can reproduce this problem and to solve it we need to use pythonw instead of python in our scripts.

[ccordoba12]

However, I think this is a minor problem because most of the core devs use this command to run Spyder from git:

python bootstrap.py

issued from the root of our repo. And in Mac this command needs to be changed to

pythonw bootstrap.py

[ccordoba12]

Closing because this no longer applies.