Showstopper Error in corporate environment under Win 7

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Originally opened as dart-lang/sdk#17178

This issue was originally filed by [email protected]

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What steps will reproduce the problem?

1. Since DartEditor does not support proxies, define http_proxy and https_proxy environment vars.
2. try a "pub get" in your env
3. my user home is located in some remote location (typical enterprise stuff)

\rdev\DFSRoot$\home\moelrue\Application Data\Pub\Cache\hosted\pub.dartlang.org\browser-0.9.0\lib of Link.create on Windows cannot be converted to start with a drive letter. Unexpected error., path = ''

It seems like dart is ressolving the full path of a "virtual home" drive first and then cannot map back. However it acknoledges the proxy vars.

I cannot build/update from DartEditor, because it completely fails with proxy.

This is a serious issue, we cannot use Dart this way. Even worse, DartEditor additonally does not support our RH6.5 Linux boxes, so we are screwed on Windoze and Linux platforms.

The software setup as described is very standard to larger companies (at least here in europe) from what I have seen (i am a consultant).

Consider this much more important than adding fancy features. I could imagine this seriously hampers commercial use of Dart.

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<img src="https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/5449880?v=3" align="left" width="48" height="48"hspace="10"> Comment by iposva-google

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cc @munificent.
Added Area-Editor, Triaged labels.

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<img src="https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/8616782?v=3" align="left" width="48" height="48"hspace="10"> Comment by clayberg

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Set owner to @keertip.
Added this to the 1.3 milestone.
Removed Priority-Unassigned label.
Added Priority-Medium label.

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<img src="https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2192312?v=3" align="left" width="48" height="48"hspace="10"> Comment by keertip

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@moru0011,

Are you able to run pub from command line after setting the proxy vars?

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This comment was originally written by [email protected]

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No, it tells me

"\rdev\DFSRoot$\home\moelrue\Application
Data\Pub\Cache\hosted\pub.dartlang.org\browser-0.9.0\lib of
Link.create on Windows cannot be converted to start with a drive
letter. Unexpected error., path = ''"

seems like the setup of the home drives confused pub.

Maybe the project is confused (started with 1.0 and I upgraded
DartEditor subsequently). I'll retry a clean install as soon I find
time ..

2014-03-04 23:27 GMT+01:00 <[email protected]>:

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<img src="https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2192312?v=3" align="left" width="48" height="48"hspace="10"> Comment by keertip

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Bob, sorry to bounce this over, but it looks like a pub issue.

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Set owner to @munificent.
Removed Area-Editor label.
Added Area-Pub label.

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<img src="https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/46275?v=3" align="left" width="48" height="48"hspace="10"> Comment by munificent

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Unfortunately, pub currently relies on creating symlinks. Windows doesn't support those on network shares, so the workaround is to move your pub cache to a local directory. You can configure that by setting a PUB_CACHE environment variable to point to the local directory where packages should be installed.

We're actively working to move away from using symlinks at all, but there are a very large number of moving parts involved in that change so it will take a while.

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Added Duplicate label.
Marked as being merged into #415.

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This comment was originally written by [email protected]

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Well, consider moving this to IDE options, so it gets visible to a user. I
don't think its required to hold the PUB_CACHE on a network share (and
links are very useful, aren't they :-) ).
The home drive will be on a network drive most of the time in a corporate
environment. Additionally big fat companies like to have bizarre quotas
like 10MB on such a home drive, so having cache's in there isn't a good
idea anyway. Maybe just default to TEMP for the cache on windows. Its just
hard to figure out what's wrong for a developer new to dart+pub.
IMHO choose a default most likely to work, the few users having a problem
with local cache might need to reconfigure, not vice versa ..

2014-04-02 19:36 GMT+02:00 <[email protected]>:

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<img src="https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/188?v=3" align="left" width="48" height="48"hspace="10"> Comment by nex3

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There's not really a good alternative option for a default place to put the cache. We need something that we can consistently find without any configuration, and it needs to be persistent, so TEMP doesn't work.

It sounds like the home directory isn't a good fit for your environment, but that's why it's configurable.

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This comment was originally written by [email protected]

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agree its annoying. I have worked as a contractor in insurance and finance,
typically the home drive is not a good place in bigger companies, which
means pub won't work out of the box in those places. Do whatever you think
is best with that feedback :-)

2014-04-02 20:41 GMT+02:00 <[email protected]>:

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<img src="https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/46275?v=3" align="left" width="48" height="48"hspace="10"> Comment by munificent

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Thank you for the feedback!