I used the latest commit from the main branch and took it for a testdrive on Ubuntu 20.04.
Following the beeware tutorial, taking the docu changes from this PR into accout I ran into two issues. First is probably more of a UX issue, second one is a show stopper.
- When installing briefcase into the venv, and when running
briefcase dev transient dependencies get installed, like python-slugify, gbulb and pycairo, which are not available as wheels. They get installed successfully eventually because pip automatically falls back to calling setup.py install for each of them, but everytime a big fat, 10-line error message is printend in red color.
(beeware-venv) osboxes@osboxes:~/beeware-tutorial$ python -m pip install --no-cache-dir briefcase
Collecting briefcase
Downloading briefcase-0.3.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl (71 kB)
|████████████████████████████████| 71 kB 1.2 MB/s
[...]
Building wheels for collected packages: python-slugify
Building wheel for python-slugify (setup.py) ... error
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
command: /home/osboxes/beeware-tutorial/beeware-venv/bin/python -u -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/tmp/pip-install-uzyfkqi4/python-slugify/setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'/tmp/pip-install-uzyfkqi4/python-slugify/setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' bdist_wheel -d /tmp/pip-wheel-s470wu5x
cwd: /tmp/pip-install-uzyfkqi4/python-slugify/
Complete output (6 lines):
usage: setup.py [global_opts] cmd1 [cmd1_opts] [cmd2 [cmd2_opts] ...]
or: setup.py --help [cmd1 cmd2 ...]
or: setup.py --help-commands
or: setup.py cmd --help
error: invalid command 'bdist_wheel'
----------------------------------------
ERROR: Failed building wheel for python-slugify
Running setup.py clean for python-slugify
Failed to build python-slugify
Installing collected packages: smmap, gitdb, GitPython, chardet, idna, urllib3, certifi, requests, MarkupSafe, Jinja2, binaryornot, click, text-unidecode, python-slugify, poyo, six, python-dateutil, arrow, jinja2-time, cookiecutter, toml, briefcase
Running setup.py install for python-slugify ... done
Successfully installed GitPython-3.1.3 Jinja2-2.11.2 MarkupSafe-1.1.1 arrow-0.15.6 binaryornot-0.4.4 briefcase-0.3.0 certifi-2020.4.5.2 chardet-3.0.4 click-7.1.2 cookiecutter-1.7.2 gitdb-4.0.5 idna-2.9 jinja2-time-0.2.0 poyo-0.5.0 python-dateutil-2.8.1 python-slugify-4.0.0 requests-2.23.0 six-1.15.0 smmap-3.0.4 text-unidecode-1.3 toml-0.10.1 urllib3-1.25.9When installing wheel into the venv first, those errors never appear.
- When executing
briefcase run it fails with the following error:
(beeware-dev) osboxes@osboxes:~/beeware-tutorial/helloworld$ briefcase run
[helloworld] Starting app...
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/tmp/.mount_Hello_63m7qR/usr/lib/python3.8/runpy.py", line 194, in _run_module_as_main
return _run_code(code, main_globals, None,
File "/tmp/.mount_Hello_63m7qR/usr/lib/python3.8/runpy.py", line 87, in _run_code
exec(code, run_globals)
File "/tmp/.mount_Hello_63m7qR/usr/app/helloworld/__main__.py", line 4, in <module>
main().main_loop()
File "/tmp/.mount_Hello_63m7qR/usr/app/helloworld/app.py", line 40, in main
return HelloWorld()
File "/tmp/.mount_Hello_63m7qR/usr/app_packages/toga/app.py", line 208, in __init__
self.factory = get_platform_factory(factory)
File "/tmp/.mount_Hello_63m7qR/usr/app_packages/toga/platform.py", line 39, in get_platform_factory
from toga_gtk import factory
File "/tmp/.mount_Hello_63m7qR/usr/app_packages/toga_gtk/factory.py", line 1, in <module>
from .app import App, DocumentApp, MainWindow
File "/tmp/.mount_Hello_63m7qR/usr/app_packages/toga_gtk/app.py", line 8, in <module>
import gbulb
File "/tmp/.mount_Hello_63m7qR/usr/app_packages/gbulb/__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
from .glib_events import *
File "/tmp/.mount_Hello_63m7qR/usr/app_packages/gbulb/glib_events.py", line 12, in <module>
from gi.repository import GLib, Gio
File "/tmp/.mount_Hello_63m7qR/usr/app_packages/gi/__init__.py", line 42, in <module>
from . import _gi
ImportError: libffi.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Unable to start app helloworld.I attached the full output of the create and build command. Compared the installed libffi packages. In Ubuntu 18.04 it was named libffi5, in 20.04 it's named libffi6. Isn't the whole selling point of AppImages, to be independent of shared libs?
create.log
build.log
I used the latest commit from the main branch and took it for a testdrive on Ubuntu 20.04.
Following the beeware tutorial, taking the docu changes from this PR into accout I ran into two issues. First is probably more of a UX issue, second one is a show stopper.
briefcase devtransient dependencies get installed, likepython-slugify,gbulbandpycairo, which are not available as wheels. They get installed successfully eventually because pip automatically falls back to callingsetup.py installfor each of them, but everytime a big fat, 10-line error message is printend in red color.When installing
wheelinto the venv first, those errors never appear.briefcase runit fails with the following error:I attached the full output of the create and build command. Compared the installed
libffipackages. In Ubuntu 18.04 it was namedlibffi5, in 20.04 it's namedlibffi6. Isn't the whole selling point of AppImages, to be independent of shared libs?create.log
build.log