quick start: python package error after rez-bind --quickstart

[frueter]

Hi,
I am just trying to go through the very first steps of rez and was trying to build the hello_world example package.
However it failed with this error:

Running build command: python C:\Users\frank\Downloads\rez\example_packages\hello_world/build.py install
18:11:19 ERROR    PackageCommandError: Error in post_commands in package 'c:\\users\\frank\\packages\\python\\3.10.9\\package.py[0]':
[WinError 3] The system cannot find the path specified: 'c:\\users\\frank\\packages\\python\\3.10.9\\platform-windows\\arch-AMD64\\os-windows-10.0.22000.SP0\\python'

And sure enough, there is no "python" folder in c:\users\frank\packages\python\3.10.9\platform-windows\arch-AMD64\os-windows-10.0.22000.SP0, only a "bin" folder.

I believe the python package was created by the rez-bind --quickstart command that is listed in teh quick start docs.

Since this is the very first time I am trying to use rez I have no idea where to turn from here, could somebody help please?
This is on Windows 11

Cheers,
frank

[instinct-vfx]

Hey Frank,

rez-bind is to be deprectated and specifically the python bind does not work well on windows if at all. I would suggest using it only to create the implicit packages (by running rez-bind os that should also pull in the other two as dependencies and creating a python package with actual payload. You can use a script i created for a tutorial a while back that you can find here: https://github.com/techartorg/rez_utils/tree/main/rezify_python.

It downloads the python version you request using nuget and creates a functional self-contained python package.

[instinct-vfx]

@AcademySoftwareFoundation/rez-maintainers Note to self: We really need to get up notes/warnings for rez-bind on windows.

[frueter]

Thanks Thorsten, You did mention these things to me before I got started, and I did try to follow your advise, but the correlations were not clear to me at this stage. I saw no mention of rez-bind being deprecated anwhere in the docs, only in your tutorial, and after only binding os, python was not found at all, so I tried using --quicksand despite you advising against it, as I wasn't sure how rezify_python fit into the picture yet (I am a complete beginner and still need to figure out the basics despite having read a fair bit by now). If does feel like the quick start guide needs a bit of work to assist people actually getting started on windows (quickly or slowly ;)). Will try again next week. Cheers, Frank

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On Fri, 17 Feb 2023, 8:45 pm Thorsten Kaufmann, ***@***.***> wrote: Hey Frank, rez-bind is to be deprectated and specifically the python bind does not work well on windows if at all. I would suggest using it only to create the implicit packages (by running rez-bind os that should also pull in the other two as dependencies and creating a python package with actual payload. You can use a script i created for a tutorial a while back that you can find here: https://github.com/techartorg/rez_utils/tree/main/rezify_python. It downloads the python version you request using nuget and creates a functional self-contained python package. — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#1448 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AANFIK4VP3OYAOF7ANJLBHDWX4UBXANCNFSM6AAAAAAU7ATVQQ> . You are receiving this because you authored the thread.Message ID: <AcademySoftwareFoundation/rez/repo-discussions/1448/comments/5007066@ github.com>

[instinct-vfx]

Sadly there is no mention indeed and you are not the first to hit that entry barrier so we do need to address it.