Install with --user fails on markupsafe

[pecami]

Hi,

I realise it's a while since this was active for you, any help is appreciated.
Due to limited admin rights I was forced to make a --user install, which failed on markupsafe

Environment:
Windows 10 Enterprise build 1809 64-bit
Python 3.6 32-bit
GNU bash, version 4.4.12(1)-release (x86_64-pc-msys)

Steps taken:
Download repository to C:\Dev\cobol-sharp
Create directory C:\Users\p950pkc\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python36\site-packages
Open git bash in C:\Dev\cobol-sharp
In git bash, run: python setup.py install --user

Expected result:
cobolsharp.exe and cobolsharp-script.py built in C:\Users\p950pkc\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python36\Scripts

Actual result:
Build failed with message:
error: The 'MarkupSafe>=0.23' distribution was not found and is required by Jinja2
The full install bash log is attached as a zip file: cobol_sharp_user_build_fail.zip
cobol_sharp_user_build_fail.zip

Running same command in PowerShell gives same result

[petli]

Not sure what setuptools is doing here. A potential workaround is to install via pip instead of python setup.py, as it seems to resolve dependencies slightly differently:

pip install --user .

I've so far looked at this on my Linux machine with Python 3.5, installing into a virtualenv. There python setup.py runs off trying to install pre-release versions which doesn't work, but pip install doesn't. I'll boot up the Windows machine too and see how it behaves there, but it seems quite possible that the pip method might work around the problem you have.