"tracd" and "trac-admin" commands do not work under windows

[ilias@…]

calling "tracd" or "trac-admin" within a windows command window does not work.

A temporary workaround for this is:

cd %you-python-dir%/Scripts/
copy tracd tracd.py
copy tracadmin trac-admin.py

create a file "tracd.bat" with content

call tracd.py %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9

create a file "trac-admin.bat" with content

call trac-admin.py %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9

you can now call trac-admin / tracd directly on the command-line.

[Matthew Good]

It's not necessary to rename the files to add the .py extension, since you can simply make a batch file like:

python tracd ...

However, this can be resolved more cleanly once we switch to setuptools which nicely handles installing executable scripts. On Windows it creates a .exe wrapper to launch the script to make sure it works nicely when multiple versions of Python are installed.

[ilias@…]

of course setuptools will handle this much better.

the solution shown is just a workaround, which users can provide themselves.

Renaming the *.py is just to avoid the need to state an absolute path.

you can use alternatively (without renaming the files):

call python C:\Python24\Scripts\tracd %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9

and

call python C:\Python24\Scripts\trac-admin %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9

assuming "C:\Python24" as python installation location

[anonymous]

Replying to ilias@lazaridis.com: The Window install instructions imply there are existing files called tracd and tracd-admin that need to be renamed by adding a .py extention. But these files do not exist in my c:\Python24\tools\scripts directory. This is after running the trac-0.10.3-wininstall.py and trac-o.10.3-win32.exe.

Am I suppose to create empty files tracd.py and trac-admin.py? Again the instructions imply they should exist.

[ilias@…]

Replying to anonymous:

not exist in my c:\Python24\tools\scripts directory. This is after running the

They should be located within "c:\Python24\Scripts" directory. Search for "tracd" if you are not sure.

[ilias@…]

fixed with setuptools-merge, see [4819]

[anonymous]

I have searched everywhere and these 2 files simply don't exist anywhere on my computer after installing Python 2.4.3 . . . this is frustrating and confusing. . . where do I look to find them or how do I get around this?

[Matthew Good]

Replying to anonymous:

I have searched everywhere and these 2 files simply don't exist anywhere on my computer after installing Python 2.4.3 . . . this is frustrating and confusing. . . where do I look to find them or how do I get around this?

That's not the issue described in this ticket, so I'm re-closing the ticket. Check on the MailingList or IrcChannel and someone can help you locate the files.