Using bzr with pycurl on Windows

[John Arbash Meinel]

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On 5/25/2011 7:02 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> I tried to use bzr-git to clone this package:
> 
>   https://github.com/dlitz/pycrypto.git
> 
> It got stuck after saying this (in .bzr.log only):
> 
>   0.672  failed to import pycurl: No module named pycurl
>   0.672  failed to instantiate transport <bzrlib.registry._LazyObjectGetter object at 1085ad0, module='bzrlib.transport.http._pycurl' attribute='PyCurlTransport' imported=False> for 'https://github.com/dlitz/pycrypto.git': DependencyNotPresent(Unable to import library "pycurl": No module named pycurl)
> 
> (Should it hang like that, btw?)
> 
> I found this page:
> 
>   http://wiki.bazaar.canonical.com/PyCurl
>

It shouldn't hang, but it isn't because of pycurl. This is just a note
saying you don't have pycurl so we fall back to using urllib. We don't
need pycurl, we just try it first.

> which seems to give hope that PyCurl is workable on Windows.  I
> installed libcurl from the first of the two links on that page, but
> bumped into a problem with the second link, viz.:
> 
>    http://pycurl.sourceforge.net/download/
> 
> The standalone Windows installers there refuse to work, saying that
> they don't find Python on my machine (which is true).  And if I
> install pycurl-7.19.0.tar.gz (just the Python part of it) into
> site-packages directory, I get gobs of exceptions (I can show the
> details if someone is willing to see).
> 
> Did someone succeed in installing PyCurl on Windows and using bzr-git
> in conjunction with https protocol?
> 
> TIA
> 

I don't know what is up with bzr-git, but it has nothing to do with
pycurl. If you are hung w/ bzr-git, you might try Ctrl+Pause/Break,
which should drop you into a debugger, and you can do stuff like "bt" to
get the backtrace to see what is going on.

However, bzr-git could be hung in git code, or somewhere in C land. So
that isn't guaranteed to work.

John
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