| Title: | check_jobs doesn't work on Windows if .py file association is set |
| Status: | closed |
| Priority: | essential |
| Assigned user: | Nick Barnes |
| Organization: | Ravenbrook |
| Description: | If the .py file association is set on Windows (so typing "p4" runs Python on p4.py), then running the check_jobs.py script in the P4DTI install directory fails with a misleading error message: Perforce error: (P4DTI-7054) The command 'p4 -V' didn't report a recognizable version number. Check your setting for the 'p4_client_executable' parameter. |
| Analysis: | check_jobs.py fails under Windows when run from the P4DTI install directory because of Windows filetype mapping. The check_jobs.py script uses the Python P4 module without specifying a Perforce client executable, so the P4 module runs a command "p4", which Windows interprets to mean "run the p4.py script in Python". Modify def check_jobs(): p4i = p4.p4(port = config.p4_port, user = config.p4_user, password = config.p4_password) to def check_jobs(): p4i = p4.p4(port = config.p4_port, client_executable = config.p4_client_executable, user = config.p4_user, password = config.p4_password) This is Perforce job 009794.[1] |
| How found: | customer |
| Evidence: | [1] <http://info.ravenbrook.com/mail/2002/11/27/18-42-01/0.txt> |
| Observed in: | 1.5.3 |
| Introduced in: | 1.3.0 |
| Created by: | Nick Barnes |
| Created on: | 2003‑05‑16 15:50:24 |
| Last modified by: | Nick Barnes |
| Last modified on: | 2003‑05‑23 16:55:50 |
| History: | 2003-05-16 NB Created. |
| Change | Effect | Date | User | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 46168 | closed | 2003‑05‑23 16:55:40 | Nick Barnes | check_jobs.py needs to pass the client_executable argument into the p4 module. |
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