Re: CYGWIN git cannot install python packages with pip

From: ankostis <ankostis@gmail.com>
Date: May 16, 2017, 13:15 UTC
Message-ID: <CA+dhYEWyyK=L7mHuYhyEc78FDs4fksMBwgY6mAErfGRL3mzu-A@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CA+dhYEX+GgEHnVBnLQqnNW99xpf9kWcataTTt3Ya6ivGFgscMw@mail.gmail.com>

On 2 May 2017 at 20:08, ankostis <ankostis@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Windows, with Cygwin-git 02.12.2-1 the python command:
>
>     pip install git+https://github.com/...`
>
> fails to work with the following error:
>
>     $ pip install git+https://github.com/ipython/traitlets/
>     Collecting git+https://github.com/ipython/traitlets/
>     Cloning https://github.com/ipython/traitlets/ to c:\users\username\appdata
> \local\temp\pip-kjwxq_oy-build
>     fatal: Invalid path '/cygdrive/d/Work/ALLINONES2/co2mpas_AIO-v1.6.0/CO2MPA
> S/C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-kjwxq_oy-build': No such file or di
> rectory
>     git clone -q https://github.com/ipython/traitlets/ C:\Users\user\AppData\L
> ocal\Temp\pip-kjwxq_oy-build" failed with error code 128 in None
>
>
>
> Git-2.8.3 had no such problem.
>
> Any ideas?

Reporting for those bitten by this, latest working CYGWIN timemachine
release is on 16 March 2017:
  http://ctm.crouchingtigerhiddenfruitbat.org/pub/cygwin/circa/2017/04/16/142104/index.html