Rhino8 reinstalls dependencies with each new component instance

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Hello!

I’m confronted with an issue I haven’t experienced before with our GH plugin bluejay.
Our components all have #r: compas>=2.8.1 in their header which used to work great. Our library and other dependencies would get installed on the first ever time any of them is added to the doc.

Today I noticed that Rhino attempts to re-install the dependencies for every new instance of any of our components.

So everything is installed once I drag an instance of e.g. the Info component even if I’ve already used the component previously. When I drag another instance of the Info component, however, Rhino attempts again to re-install all the dependencies. This time it actually fails since we have some compiled binaries as dependencies and these are already loaded/locked by the process.

here’s a gif showing the issue:
gh_bug

My Rhino is build 8.17.25066.7001
running on Windows 10

Any idea what may be causing this?

Thanks!
Chen

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Is the first installation failing? Maybe if something’s changed with the latest version of a dependency?
It takes a while to go through the deps for me too in v8.18, on the second component, just pasting

#r: compas>=2.8.1
print('Done')

into CPython components. But on second thoughts I don’t know if that’s re-install, or pip verifiying what’s already installed versus what’s needed, to make sure no dependencies are missing.

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Hey @James_Parrott,

thanks for trying it out. mmh I’m pretty convinced it’s a re-install.
as you can see here with the python console open, the installation is successful.

first_install
first_install1351×692 126 KB

When opening another script component and pasting the header, it’s nevertheless installed again:

second_install
second_install2378×884 189 KB

One observation though is that when not specifying a version constraint, behavior is as expected (no re-installation):

no_install
no_install1724×818 168 KB

Chen

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Thanks for the thorough investigation Chen.

If you install everything in a # venv: shared between the two components, does it still install it all twice?

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Looking into this right now…Stay tuned :radio:

Update: I can replicate this and will push a fix for this ASAP. There is a bug in compas>=2.8.1 version comparison. You should be able to use compas==2.10.0 or compas>=2.10.0 (that’s what actually gets installed) as a quick workaround

RH-86793 Compas version comparison keeps reinstalling package

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thanks @eirannejad! appreciate it.

Chen

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@Chen_Kasirer I can DM you a test build if you want to test.

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Sure, that’d be awesome.

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RH-86793 is fixed in Rhino 8 Service Release 19 Release Candidate

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@eirannejad @brian thanks for the awesome work and responsiveness!

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@Chen_Kasirer Anytime! Thanks for the feedback and being patient :smiley: