4.130 appears fragile on Windows

[kovidgoyal]

python installer\windows\freeze.py
python installer\windows\build_installer.py

[itimpi]

I am getting

C:\calibre>python installer\windows\freeze.py
C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\py2exe\build_exe.py:16: DeprecationWarning: the se
ts module is deprecated
  import sets
Setup calibre version: 0.4.130
running py2exe
creating C:\calibre\build\bdist.win32
creating C:\calibre\build\bdist.win32\winexe
creating C:\calibre\build\bdist.win32\winexe\collect-2.6
creating C:\calibre\build\bdist.win32\winexe\bundle-2.6
creating C:\calibre\build\bdist.win32\winexe\temp
creating C:\calibre\build\py2exe
*** searching for required modules ***
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "installer\windows\freeze.py", line 194, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "installer\windows\freeze.py", line 186, in main
    'dll_excludes' : ['mswsock.dll'],
  File "C:\Python26\lib\distutils\core.py", line 152, in setup
    dist.run_commands()
  File "C:\Python26\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 975, in run_commands
    self.run_command(cmd)
  File "C:\Python26\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 995, in run_command
    cmd_obj.run()
  File "installer\windows\freeze.py", line 59, in run
    py2exe.build_exe.py2exe.run(self)
  File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\py2exe\build_exe.py", line 243, in run
    self._run()
  File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\py2exe\build_exe.py", line 296, in _run
    self.find_needed_modules(mf, required_files, required_modules)
  File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\py2exe\build_exe.py", line 1297, in find_n
eeded_modules
    mf.import_hook(mod)
  File "C:\Python26\Lib\site-packages\py2exe\mf.py", line 719, in import_hook
    return Base.import_hook(self,name,caller,fromlist,level)
  File "C:\Python26\Lib\site-packages\py2exe\mf.py", line 136, in import_hook
    q, tail = self.find_head_package(parent, name)
  File "C:\Python26\Lib\site-packages\py2exe\mf.py", line 204, in find_head_pack
age
    raise ImportError, "No module named " + qname
ImportError: No module named pkg_resources

trying to run the first command. Is there something I should have run first to create these?

The good side of all these questions is that I am updating the wiki with my finidngs so that hopefully the next person going down the Windows only route will not need to ask as many questions

[kovidgoyal]

If you want to create the windows installer you have to install all the packages that were installed with easy_install with teh --always-unzip flag

For pkg_resources

easy_install --always-unzip -U setuptools

[itimpi]

I have been using the 131 release quite heavily today and have not had a single crash so the change you mentioned seems to have worked (for me at least).

The other thing I noticed is that the GUI seems to be more responsive if there is a conversion running in the background. This is a subjective assessment, but thought it was worth mentioning just in case it points towards other desirable performance related changes.

[mtravellerh]

Things are definitely more stable now when switching the GUI from one format convert to the other. I had some crashes with 0130. Okay now with 0131

[kovidgoyal]

Glad to hear it.