sk1project/wixpy

Cross-platform JSON-driven MSI package builder

wixpy's Issues

Python 3: ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'gi'

According to setup.py this projects runs on both Python 2 and Python 3. However, when I try to install WiX.py from PyPI I do get the following error:

$ pip install WiX.py
Collecting WiX.py
  Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/88/5f/396e4a819a944e4c878f26dc809d45f93b2775247eb68ed488f97396dd95/WiX.Py-0.1.0.tar.gz (1.6MB)
     |████████████████████████████████| 1.6MB 1.7MB/s 
    ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
     command: /home/peter/.local/share/virtualenvs/PythonTurtle-pecabjcl/bin/python3.6 -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/tmp/pip-install-sztrh4os/WiX.py/setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'/tmp/pip-install-sztrh4os/WiX.py/setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' egg_info --egg-base pip-egg-info
         cwd: /tmp/pip-install-sztrh4os/WiX.py/
    Complete output (13 lines):
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
      File "/tmp/pip-install-sztrh4os/WiX.py/setup.py", line 28, in <module>
        import wixpy
      File "/tmp/pip-install-sztrh4os/WiX.py/src/wixpy/__init__.py", line 46, in <module>
        from wixpy import model
      File "/tmp/pip-install-sztrh4os/WiX.py/src/wixpy/model.py", line 22, in <module>
        from wixpy import msi
      File "/tmp/pip-install-sztrh4os/WiX.py/src/wixpy/msi.py", line 26, in <module>
        from wixpy import libmsi
      File "/tmp/pip-install-sztrh4os/WiX.py/src/wixpy/libmsi.py", line 20, in <module>
        import gi
    ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'gi'
    ----------------------------------------
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: python setup.py egg_info Check the logs for full command output.

I'm running Python 3.6.8 on Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS. Also, I have both the python-gi and the python3-gi Debian packages installed:

$ dpkg -l | grep -e python-gi -e python3-gi
ii  python-gi           3.26.1-2ubuntu1     amd64      Python 2.x bindings for gobject-introspection libraries
ii  python3-gi          3.26.1-2ubuntu1     amd64      Python 3 bindings for gobject-introspection libraries
ii  python3-gi-cairo    3.26.1-2ubuntu1     amd64      Python 3 Cairo bindings for the GObject library

I can import the gi module in my Python 2.7, though, so it's likely that installing with Python 2 will succeed:

$ python
Python 2.7.17 (default, Jul 20 2020, 15:37:01)
[GCC 7.5.0] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import gi
>>>

The project doesn't seem to have a test suite and pipeline to test against supported Python versions. Is there any documentation saying which requirements must be satisfied for Python 3 installations?

Add exe-launchers for py3 version

Subj

Show message window after successful installation

There is quiet installation currently. It may bother some users thinking of "is installed or not?!"

Implement pre and post install actions

I'm looking at simpler ways of creating MSI files, as I hate 💀 working with WiX - WiX.Py looks great!

I was wondering if it had support for executing any kind of custom action or hook? For example, to run an arbitrary command after the install phase - I'm thinking along the lines of WiX's custom actions, or go-msi's hooks.

<MajorUpgrade>

Is it possible to implement the behavior of WiX tag MajorUpgrade. For Example:

<MajorUpgrade DowngradeErrorMessage="A newer version of [ProductName] is already installed." />

The first goal - it prevents install several MSI with different versions in one time
The second goal - it forbid downgrade of MSI

Does not work in Linux Mint 18 Sarah

Running wix.py wixpy.json (FROM this REPOSITORY)
gives an error

Error reading JSON file! the JSON object must be str, not 'bytes'

AttributeError: module 'platform' has no attribute 'dist' (Python 3.8)

dist function is deprecated on platform module in 3.5 and removed in 3.8.

Collecting wix.py
Using cached WiX.Py-0.1.0.tar.gz (1.6 MB)
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
command: 'C:\Users\username\Anaconda3\envs\py38\python.exe' -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-fhul34d0\wix.py\setup.py'"'"'; file='"'"'C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-fhul34d0\wix.py\setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(file);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, file, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' egg_info --egg-base 'C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-fhul34d0\wix.py\pip-egg-info'
cwd: C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-fhul34d0\wix.py
Complete output (11 lines):
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
File "C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-fhul34d0\wix.py\setup.py", line 29, in
import dependencies
File "C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-fhul34d0\wix.py\dependencies.py", line 23, in
from utils.dist import *
File "C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-fhul34d0\wix.py\utils\dist.py", line 108, in
SYSFACTS = SystemFacts()
File "C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-fhul34d0\wix.py\utils\dist.py", line 78, in init
self.family, self.version = platform.dist()[:2]
AttributeError: module 'platform' has no attribute 'dist'

New version installs not upgrading

When I install a new version of my app I get 2 entries in the add/remove control panel. How do I prevent this?

Ability to install to "Program Files\MyCompanyName\MyAppName"

Hi. Didn`t find this feature. It woulld be very useful to collect all our company programs in one subdirectory.

how to have ui

Crash if _Shortcuts.Open is not given

_Shortcuts.Open is not optional, but must be set to at least an empty list.

Works:

  "_Shortcuts": [
      {"Name": "WiX.Py",
       "Description": "Cross-platform MSI builder",
       "Target": "wix.py.exe",
       "Open": [],
       }
   ]

Crashes:

  "_Shortcuts": [
      {"Name": "WiX.Py",
       "Description": "Cross-platform MSI builder",
       "Target": "wix.py.exe",
       }
   ]

Can't add subdirectories to _InstallDir

Can't seem to add a subdirectory to the Program Files path
eg. "_InstallDir": "foo/bar"
Results in installer error code 2714

Installation on specified path

Subj

NameError: name 'long' is not defined (Windows + Python 3)

wixpy/src/wixpy/libmsiw.py

Line 85 in 0026afa

if isinstance(field, (int, long)):

wixpy/src/wixpy/libmsiw.py

Line 87 in 0026afa

elif isinstance(field, basestring):

isinstance(field, (int, long)) and isinstance(field, basestring) cause NameError on Windows + Python 3. In Python 3 no such types as long and basestring.

Windows service setup

Subj

DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found.

Hi,

I have installed wix.py using the Windows msi installer.

When I run this command “wix.py msi.json” I get the following error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "wix.py", line 32, in
File "wixpy_init_.pyc", line 44, in
File "wixpy\model.pyc", line 22, in
File "wixpy\msi.pyc", line 28, in
File "wixpy\libmsiw.pyc", line 21, in
File "_msi.pyc", line 12, in
File "_msi.pyc", line 10, in __load
ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found.

My msi.json file looks like this:
{
"Name": "MyApp",
"UpgradeCode": "3AC4B4FF-19C5-4B8F-83AD-BAC3238BF690",
"Version": "1.0",
"Manufacturer": "MyCompany",
"_SourceDir": "./program",
"_InstallDir": "myapp-1.0",
"_OutputName": "myapp-1.0-win32.msi",
"_OutputDir": "./"
}

Could you help me out? Thank you in advance.