Unable to create process under conda on Windows

[dacoex]

On Windows I installed vitables as instructed here:
https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/vitables

When starting via viatables in the conda command window in the same environment I get the following error:

The program then aborts :-(

Is this related to #31 ?

[charlesbaynham]

I get the same error

[mp-007]

To make it work with Anaconda, I have download the zip file on the Vitables GitHub (ViTables-master.zip). After thay you have extracted the zip file, I have open a Command Prompt and I have run this line (note: you must be in the extracted file directory, ex: C:\Users\MyUser\Downloads\ViTables-master):

python setup.py install

After that, just run Vitables my typing in the command prompt (note: this command don't need to be execute in a specific path):

vitables

[ankostis]

@Uvema could it be due to gui-scripts entry-point in the setup.py?
I don't have good memories with this entry-point, both under Windows & Linux (e.g. stderr/stdout are blocked and app suffers a horrible death).

May i suggest to:
a) use simple console_scripts on the setup.py, and
b) retrofit conda-recipe to use conda's menuinst to add launch menu-items?

[uvemas]

@ankostis thanks for your suggestions. I'll try to give a look to this problem ASAP.

[uvemas]

In release 3.0.2 I've replaced gui_scripts with console_scripts as suggested by @ankostis. Hope it helps (the conda package is not yet ready, conda-forge/vitables-feedstock#14).

[uvemas]

The new conda package is available. You can try it and see if it works for you.

[S-hannon]

I have just installed vitables to conda and also get this error

[S-hannon]

I have just installed vitables to conda and also get this error

Ah, this works:
(Anaconda3) > conda create --name vitables pytables pyqt
(Anaconda3) > conda activate vitables
(vitables) > pip install ViTables

[uvemas]

Yes, its exactly what the FAQ says :-)

[meawoppl]

Same issue here. Notably the windows package instructions here result in a broken installtion as above:
https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/vitables