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Old 08-22-2020, 12:40 AM   #266
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When I try to run calibre-customize on macOS using the latest beta (4.99.12) it seems to have a problem where it detaches from the terminal and constantly respawns without the arguments I originally passed. I saw this on macOS 10.15 and on the current macOS 11 beta. I do not see this with the Linux beta build.

With some setup to use a fresh config directory:

Code:
export CALIBRE_CONFIG_DIRECTORY=/Users/jgoguen/Downloads/WVuvjzL/config
export CALIBRE_TEMP_DIR=/Users/jgoguen/Downloads/WVuvjzL/tmp
# This works fine only if I haven't imported a plugin yet
./calibre.app/Contents/MacOS/calibre-customize --help
# This requires multiple rapid-fire calls to `pkill -f calibre-customize` to finally terminate and breaks even with a completely empty config directory.
./calibre.app/Contents/MacOS/calibre-customize -a ../Code/calibre-kobo-driver/KoboTouchExtended.zip
I can reproduce this no matter what the relative path is to the plugin or if I use an absolute path instead, and with other plugin files. Looking at ps output, the calibre-customize command that's run when it detaches and constantly respawns is:

Code:
/Users/jgoguen/Downloads/calibre.app/Contents/MacOS/calibre-customize -OO -B -I -c from multiprocessing.resource_tracker import main;main(5)
Looking at the config directory, the plugin did get added to the config directory and customize.py.json and global.py.json get created; only those three files exist:

Code:
% cat customize.py.json
{
  "disabled_plugins": {
    "__class__": "set",
    "__value__": []
  },
  "enabled_plugins": {
    "__class__": "set",
    "__value__": []
  },
  "filetype_mapping": {},
  "plugin_customization": {},
  "plugins": {
    "KoboTouchExtended": "/Users/jgoguen/Downloads/WVuvjzL/config/plugins/KoboTouchExtended.zip"
  }
}

% cat global.py.json
{
  "add_formats_to_existing": false,
  "case_sensitive": false,
  "check_for_dupes_on_ctl": false,
  "database_path": "/Users/jgoguen/library1.db",
  "filename_pattern": "(?P<title>.+) - (?P<author>[^_]+)",
  "input_format_order": [
    "EPUB",
    "AZW3",
    "MOBI",
    "LIT",
    "PRC",
    "FB2",
    "HTML",
    "HTM",
    "XHTM",
    "SHTML",
    "XHTML",
    "ZIP",
    "DOCX",
    "ODT",
    "RTF",
    "PDF",
    "TXT"
  ],
  "installation_uuid": "ece08ac4-9573-4a8e-925a-6bcc65d1e014",
  "isbndb_com_key": "",
  "language": null,
  "library_path": null,
  "limit_search_columns": false,
  "limit_search_columns_to": [
    "title",
    "authors",
    "tags",
    "series",
    "publisher"
  ],
  "manage_device_metadata": "manual",
  "mark_new_books": false,
  "migrated": false,
  "network_timeout": 5,
  "new_book_tags": [],
  "output_format": "EPUB",
  "read_file_metadata": true,
  "saved_searches": {},
  "swap_author_names": false,
  "use_primary_find_in_search": true,
  "user_categories": {},
  "worker_process_priority": "normal"
}
The output from calibre-customize is the same every time:

Code:
Usage: calibre-customize options                                                                                                                                  [21:38:07] exe:0.47s

Customize calibre by loading external plugins.


Whenever you pass arguments to calibre-customize that have spaces in them, enclose the arguments in quotation marks. For example: "/some path/with spaces"

calibre-customize: error: no such option: -O
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