Cannot install for python version

[purescript-contrib]

Cannot install for python version

[bodil]

Ugh, Python versions...

I'd almost go so far as to suggest an npm installation unable to invoke gyp is missing a fundamental dependency (python2) which you really should have installed if npm is to work reliably at all, but I'd be willing to accept a PR with a gaze version that builds for you. Uninstalling python2 isn't really something I'm able to do without breaking my own OS installation, so I'd have to rely on you to test if it builds or not.

Unless something new has appeared recently, gaze seems to be the only available watch package that works satisfactorily, so replacing it is probably not a good idea.

[joneshf]

I have py2 installed, it's just not the default for arch linux.

[bodil]

Odd, I never had a problem with this when running Arch. It should just find the python2 command and work, iirc.

Anyway, I just ran into more or less the same problem on my Windows machine, and have a version built with gaze 0.5.1 that seems to work fine, and doesn't require gyp to build. I'll commit a fix once I'm sure I haven't broken anything.

[peterjoel]

I still get this error on Windows, while installing the latest version of pulp.

    $ npm install -g pulp
    \
    > [email protected] install C:\Users\Peter\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\pulp\node_modules\webpack-dev-server\node_modules\socket.io\node_modules\engine.i
    o\node_modules\ws\node_modules\utf-8-validate
    > node-gyp rebuild


    C:\Users\Peter\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\pulp\node_modules\webpack-dev-server\node_modules\socket.io\node_modules\engine.io\node_modules\ws\node_modules\
    utf-8-validate>if not defined npm_config_node_gyp (node "c:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\bin\node-gyp-bin\\..\..\node_modules\node-gyp\bin\node-gyp.js"
     rebuild )  else (node  rebuild )
    gyp ERR! configure error
    gyp ERR! stack Error: Python executable "true" is v, which is not supported by gyp.
    gyp ERR! stack You can pass the --python switch to point to Python >= v2.5.0 & < 3.0.0.
    gyp ERR! stack     at failPythonVersion (c:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\lib\configure.js:121:14)
    gyp ERR! stack     at c:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\lib\configure.js:110:9
    gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.exithandler (child_process.js:194:7)
    gyp ERR! stack     at emitTwo (events.js:87:13)
    gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:172:7)
    gyp ERR! stack     at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:817:16)
    gyp ERR! stack     at Socket.<anonymous> (internal/child_process.js:319:11)
    gyp ERR! stack     at emitOne (events.js:77:13)
    gyp ERR! stack     at Socket.emit (events.js:169:7)
    gyp ERR! stack     at Pipe._onclose (net.js:469:12)
    gyp ERR! System Windows_NT 6.3.9600
    gyp ERR! command "c:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node.exe" "c:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node_modules\\npm\\node_modules\\node-gyp\\bin\\node-gyp.js" "rebuild"
    gyp ERR! cwd C:\Users\Peter\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\pulp\node_modules\webpack-dev-server\node_modules\socket.io\node_modules\engine.io\node_modules\ws\
    node_modules\utf-8-validate
    gyp ERR! node -v v4.1.1
    gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v3.0.3
    gyp ERR! not ok