Failed to install TAP module on Windows

[skaji]

Context

zef failed to install TAP module on Windows, not always, but fairly frequently.
This issue may be related to #490.

Expected Behavior

We can install TAP module.

Actual Behavior

zef failed to install TAP module on Windows, not always, but fairly frequently.

Steps to Reproduce

I tried installing TAP module 8 times.
While I successfully installed TAP module once, I failed to install TAP module 7 times.

The output of failure is:

Run zef install --/test --trace TAP
  zef install --/test --trace TAP
  shell: C:\Program Files\PowerShell\7\pwsh.EXE -command ". '{0}'"
===> Searching for: TAP
===> Updating fez mirror: https://360.zef.pm/
===> Updated fez mirror: https://360.zef.pm/
===> Found: TAP:ver<0.3.11>:auth<cpan:LEONT> [via Zef::Repository::Ecosystems<rea>]
===> Updating rea mirror: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Raku/REA/main/META.json
===> Fetching: TAP
===> Updated rea mirror: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Raku/REA/main/META.json
[TAP] Fetching https://raw.githubusercontent.com/raku/REA/main/archive/T/TAP/TAP%3Aver%3C0.3.11%3E%3Aauth%3Ccpan%3ALEONT%3E.tar.gz with plugin: Zef::Service::Shell::curl+{<anon|1>}

===> Fetching [OK]: TAP:ver<0.3.11>:auth<cpan:LEONT> to C:\Users\RUNNER~1\AppData\Local\Temp/.zef\1672745611.2944.7330.691750608229\TAP%3Aver%3C0.3.11%3E%3Aauth%3Ccpan%3ALEONT%3E.tar.gz
===> Extracting: TAP
[TAP] Extracting with plugin: Zef::Service::Shell::tar+{<anon|1>}
===> Extraction [OK]: TAP to C:\Users\RUNNER~1\AppData\Local\Temp/.zef\TAP%3Aver%3C0.3.11%3E%3Aauth%3Ccpan%3ALEONT%3E.tar.gz
===> CompUnit::Repository install target is valid: C:\hostedtoolcache\windows\rakudo\2022.12-01\x86_64\share\perl6\site
===> Filtering: TAP:ver<0.3.11>
===> Filtering [OK] for TAP:ver<0.3.11>
===> # SKIP: No need to build TAP:ver<0.3.11>
===> Installing: TAP:ver<0.3.11>
[TAP] Installing with plugin: Zef::Service::InstallRakuDistribution+{<anon|1>}
===> Install [FAIL] for TAP:ver<0.3.11>: 
Error: Process completed with exit code 1.

links:

• github action yaml
• github action log

Your Environment

raku version 2022.12

[skaji]

I found that, if I used raku 2022.07 (instead of the latest 2022.12),
I could install TAP on windows successfully.

So is this an issue for raku itself?

github action yaml

name: test

on:
  push:

jobs:
  raku:
    strategy:
      fail-fast: false
      matrix:
        number:
          - "1"
          - "2"
          - "3"
          - "4"
          - "5"
          - "6"
          - "7"
          - "8"
    runs-on: windows-latest
    steps:
      - uses: Raku/setup-raku@v1
        with:
          raku-version: "2022.07"
      - run: zef install --/test --trace TAP

github action log
https://github.com/skaji/raku-Acme-Test-Module-Zef/actions/runs/3834117062/jobs/6526203605

[ugexe]

Do you happen to know if 2022.07 and 2022.12 github actions come with the same version of zef?

[skaji]

raku 2022.07 comes with zef v0.13.8.
raku 2022.12 comes with zef v0.14.5.

Note that we used raku from https://rakudo.org/downloads/rakudo
More precisely,
https://rakudo.org/dl/rakudo/rakudo-moar-2022.07-01-win-x86_64-msvc.zip
https://rakudo.org/dl/rakudo/rakudo-moar-2022.12-01-win-x86_64-msvc.zip

[ugexe]

Hmm, it doesn't look like any zef changes should result in this type of failure. To be sure you could try installing the most recent version of zef on 2022.07 doing something like git clone https://github.com/ugexe/zef.git && cd zef && raku -I. bin/zef nuke site home --/confirm && raku -I. bin/zef install .

[skaji]

Even after upgrading zef, I could successfully install TAP on windows with raku 2022.07.

github action yaml

name: test

on:
  push:

jobs:
  raku:
    strategy:
      fail-fast: false
      matrix:
        number:
          - "1"
          - "2"
          - "3"
          - "4"
          - "5"
          - "6"
          - "7"
          - "8"
    runs-on: windows-latest
    steps:
      - uses: Raku/setup-raku@v1
        with:
          raku-version: "2022.07"
      - run: git clone https://github.com/ugexe/zef.git; cd zef; raku -I. bin/zef nuke site home --/confirm; raku -I. bin/zef install .
      - run: zef --version
      - run: zef install --/test --trace TAP

github action log
https://github.com/skaji/raku-Acme-Test-Module-Zef/actions/runs/3834273219/jobs/6526516362

[skaji]

It seems that this is an issue for rakudo, not zef. So I close this issue.