Pypi install V1.1.1

[peter-manzl]

Hi everyone!

I just noticed yesterday that for the newest version (V 1.1.1 from May 11th, 2024) on pypi, only the source code or the MacOS version is available. When I run (windows / Python 3.11 anaconda environment):
pip install roboticstoolbox-python
I get a very long error message which ends with:

As far as I can see this is because the package cannot be compiled without the Microsoft Visual C++ compiler. I tried it on another machine with the compiler available and everything works there fine.

Would it be possible to either upload the other wheels or mark Version 1.1.1 as pre-release? When running
pip install roboticstoolbox-python==1.1.0
everything works fine for me.

Best regards,
Peter

[laorhy]

I encountered the same issue while trying to pip install roboticstoolbox-python on Windows. Thanks to pip install roboticstoolbox-python==1.1.0, it worked.

[gbattocletti]

As far as I know the issue is related to the version requirements of spatialmath-python, and it should have been fixed in version 1.1.13 of spatialmath-python. However, today I tried an installation of spatialmath-python on windows + python 3.13 which resulted in the same error reported by @peter-manzl (see bdaiinstitute/spatialmath-python#150 (comment)).

As a workaround there are the fix suggested by @laorhy, and also two other options, namely, 1) to use a lower version of python (up to and including 3.10 the installation works fine), and 2) on any python version, install the package with the --no-deps specification and then add the required packages manually.