Opened 10 years ago

Closed 10 years ago

#21340 closed Bug (fixed)

Can't run django-admin.py on Windows

Reported by: remirampin@… Owned by: nobody
Component: Packaging Version: dev
Severity: Normal Keywords: windows setuptools distutils setup.py
Cc: Triage Stage: Accepted
Has patch: yes Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description

On Windows, setuptools usually installs a .exe file in Python\Scripts (which is typically on the path) so that it can be run from the console.

Because Django uses distutils, that script is not executable. The only way to run it is to use the full path to it or to copy it to the current directory (as stated in the docs).

I proposed a very simple pull request that uses setuptools's entry_point mechanism to create the .exe wrapper, if setuptools is installed.

There is no change in behavior if setuptools is not available (distutils will be used) and probably very few changes on UNIX systems (except that the django-admin.py entry point will be created by setuptools, instead of being copied from the django/bin directory).

Related discussions:

Attachments (1)

1812.patch (2.1 KB ) - added by remirampin@… 10 years ago.

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Change History (5)

by remirampin@…, 10 years ago

Attachment: 1812.patch added

comment:1 by Anssi Kääriäinen, 10 years ago

Triage Stage: UnreviewedAccepted

comment:2 by Tim Graham, 10 years ago

Type: UncategorizedBug
Version: master

Here's another mailing list thread about this.

comment:3 by Tim Graham, 10 years ago

We may switch to using setuptools rather than distutils, see PR 2116.

comment:4 by Florian Apolloner, 10 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed
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