Unable to install source packages when running setup from command line

2022-03-20 Thread Adam Dinwoodie
Hi, I *suspect* this is a bug, but it might just be this isn't supposed to work: there doesn't seem to be a way to download a source package for an already-installed Cygwin package when using setup from the command line. If I run, for example: /bin/setup-x86_64.exe -d -l 'C:\Users\Adam\Downl

Re: python ensurepip fails due to being unable to find files

2022-03-20 Thread Wayne Davison
On Sat, Mar 19, 2022 at 9:08 PM The Other wrote: > This was due to the ensurepip stage failing. Indeed, this seems to be broken in Cygwin. The ensurepip lib is included with the main python package, but that code requires that the wheel files exist (as it has no handling for a case where the list

Re: python ensurepip fails due to being unable to find files

2022-03-20 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2022-03-20 01:42, Brian Inglis wrote: On 2022-03-19 22:07, The Other wrote: Using the most recent version of python3 (3.9.10), I was unable to set up a virtual environment with "python -m venv venv". This was due to the ensurepip stage failing. As such, I tried running ensurepip directly. O

Re: deprecate pytz?

2022-03-20 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2021-12-21 09:06, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin-announce wrote: Several python packages have been added to the Cygwin distribution and at the same time the updated packages for 3.6/3./3.8 have been uploaded. python39-pytz   2021.3-1 Suggesting that pytz should be deprecat

Re: this must be a common problem, but repeated searching is not finding an answer

2022-03-20 Thread Clayton Cramer
Thanks.  bc is now installed. On 3/19/2022 5:18 PM, Gary Johnson wrote: On 2022-03-19, Clayton Cramer wrote: On 3/19/2022 2:55 PM, Eliot Moss wrote: You have to select packages explicitly. It does not just blindly install all of them - that's a lot of stuff, and for various reasons not a gre

Re: python ensurepip fails due to being unable to find files

2022-03-20 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2022-03-19 22:07, The Other wrote: Using the most recent version of python3 (3.9.10), I was unable to set up a virtual environment with "python -m venv venv". This was due to the ensurepip stage failing. As such, I tried running ensurepip directly. Output when running "python -m ensurepip":