Quarks won't install?

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I was trying to install dewdrop_lib, but… odd. Using either the gui or Quarks.install(“https://github.com/jamshark70/dewdrop_lib”) it says the quark is installed but it isn’t. The gui shows an error on the local path, and, checking, nothing has appeared in the downloaded-quarks directory.

I don’t think the problem is with this particular quark: any quark I try seems to behave in the same way. Any ideas? SC 3.10.0, macOS 10.13.6 High Sierra.

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Do you have git installed and functioning?

hjh

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Yes, I think so. In terminal, git --version shows 2.4.6

Functioning, though, that’s another question. Umm… not sure how I’ll test that…

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Ok, thanks, that was the problem, my recent update to High Sierra seems to have broken git. Reinstalled Homebrew and used that to update git, all good now.

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Glad to hear it.

Error reporting in Quarks is a weak point currently – often, it reports success even when the operation failed. So “says it’s installed” isn’t trustworthy. There’s an issue open for that somewhere.

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Same here. But GIT is installed. SC 3.12.1, on Windows.
However, typing “git” in a cmd window doesn’t work (but GIT is working fine). It is just not installed in a common place.
So how is SC searching for GIT ?

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I can only provide this as a decent starting point:

Git.openHelpFile.openCodeFile

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It’s using the Unix which command (or Windows where), which means that the git executable’s folder should be in the system $PATH environment variable. I forget the exact sequence in Windows, but there’s some right-click > Properties something to get to the system variables. You could add git’s location to the PATH there.

FWIW I never had much luck with git checkout of quarks in Windows, though.

hjh

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I made a fresh install of latest Git distribution. “Where git” is now responding. And the Quarks management within Windows is working perfectly.
This requirement of having Git installed isn’t documented, or I read the documentation too fast.

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In case it helps, I add a similar same issue on my 2nd system, with GIT installed, and available from the PATH.

ERROR: Failed to read quarks directory listing: https://github.com/supercollider-quarks/quarks.git ERROR: Primitive '_FileReadLine' failed.

However GIT was referenced twice in the PATH env variable (once as “C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\cmd” and once as “C:\Program Files\Git\cmd”). I removed the “(x86)” reference from the PATH. And the problem is solved.

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