Leo shortcut on windows fail with devel branch

[Félix]

I had to revert to the master branch on my windows pc to get the shortcut to work.

It's the one that points to Scripts/leo-messages.exe

Here is the shortcut in question (was setup automatically when I installed Leo)

[Félix]

Maybe I should update something on my side? Will that happen to all old windows installations made with pip install ? (I installed on that pc a year or so ago)

Here's what I see when I run that command manually : 

[Félix]

After trying to simply install pyqt6, I get yet another error when trying to launch: cannot import name 'QtWebEngineCore' from 'PyQt6'

[Edward K. Ream]

On Sun, Apr 21, 2024 at 5:37 PM Félix <felix...@gmail.com> wrote:

I had to revert to the master branch on my windows pc to get the shortcut to work.

It's the one that points to [Python]/Scripts/leo-messages.exe

I have no knowledge of this script!

There is nothing suggestive of this file in the leo-editor directory!

I suggest you delete this file!

Edward

[Edward K. Ream]

On Sun, Apr 21, 2024 at 5:37 PM Félix <felix...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I had to revert to the master branch on my windows pc to get the shortcut to work.

leo-messages.exe probably isn't nefarious, but it sure is mysterious.

Running pip -r requirements.txt should install the missing dependency.

Edward

[Félix]

Thanks Edward,

Searching for ' leo-message ' in Leo's codebase, I see the 'leo-message' script is mentioned in 'running.html' 

and also in 'add-desktop-links.leox'. 

Félix

[Félix]

Weird, i'm getting that -r is not an option... I'll investigate further... 

[Thomas Passin]

py -m pip install -r requirements.txt

[Thomas Passin]

On Sunday, April 21, 2024 at 7:05:08 PM UTC-4 Félix wrote:

After trying to simply install pyqt6, I get yet another error when trying to launch: cannot import name 'QtWebEngineCore' from 'PyQt6'

It's in a separate package from PyQt6.  Requirements.txt should get it installed. 

[Félix]

Ah! Thank you Thomas!! The precise command line you suggested made a difference!

 I can now launch Leo with the same shortcut I had, so thanks again for that py/python difference made it work :) 

Félix

[Edward K. Ream]

On Sun, Apr 21, 2024 at 7:55 PM Félix <felix...@gmail.com> wrote:

Searching for ' leo-message ' in Leo's codebase, I see the 'leo-message' script is mentioned in 'running.html' 

Thanks, Thomas, for your help.

And thanks, Félix for reporting this problem. This glitch is what Viktor asked about several days ago. It bit you because, yes, Leo's requirements did recently change. Thankfully, that's a rare event.

and also in 'add-desktop-links.leox'. 

I failed to find this file yesterday because I searched for 'leo-message' as a filename rather than as the contents of a file.

And now I see why this file isn't in LeoPyRef.leo: the file leo/scripts/desktop-integration.leo contains `@file` nodes for the .leox file above and two other related .leox files.

Edward

[Thomas Passin]

You can see what would get installed with requirements.txt by adding the flag --dry-run. pip will go through the motions but not actually install anything.  For example, I just ran py -m pip install -r requirements.txt --dry-run and got this report:

Would install Send2Trash-1.8.3 cffi-1.16.0 coverage-7.4.4 cryptography-42.0.5 pycparser-2.22 pytest-cov-5.0.0 ruff-0.4.1 types-Markdown-3.6.0.20240316 types-PyYAML-6.0.12.20240311 types-docutils-0.20.0.20240406 types-paramiko-3.4.0.20240311 types-requests-2.31.0.20240406 types-six-1.16.21.20240311

Looks Like some of my packages need updating.

[Edward K. Ream]

On Mon, Apr 22, 2024 at 7:59 AM Thomas Passin <tbp1...@gmail.com> wrote:

You can see what would get installed with requirements.txt by adding the flag --dry-run.

Thanks for this tip!

Edward