Codex 0.3 error on Windows

[mantkiew]

Hi, thanks for releasing codex 0.3 with support for windows!

I just tested it on my project as follows:

$ codex set tagger hasktags
$ codex set format sublime

$ codex update
hasktags: C:\Users\AppData\Roaming\cabal\packages\hackage.haskell.org\network-uri\2.6.0.3\tags: commitBuffer: invalid argument (invalid character)
hasktags: C:\Users\AppData\Roaming\cabal\packages\hackage.haskell.org\text\1.2.0.5\tags: commitBuffer: invalid argument (invalid character)
Updating clafer-0.4.0

I suppose that the tags file was actually updated; however, I see that instead of using the sandbox packages it has added tags to my user packages. Is that intended? Does it work for sandboxes?

[aloiscochard]

Thanks for reporting this @mantkiew, I'll give it a try on my windows machine when I have a chance.

But maybe @bmjames have already a wild guess?

[aloiscochard]

BTW in case that was not clear: yes it must work with sandbox!

I had no time to look into it yet, but after re-reading the message it seems like the user directory is not properly resolve (C:\Users<user name>\AppData should be for example C:\Users\mantkiew\AppData)

It would be interesting to see if you can get what is the result of this function on your system:
http://hackage.haskell.org/package/directory-1.2.2.1/docs/System-Directory.html#v:getAppUserDataDirectory

[bmjames]

My guess is that the error commitBuffer: invalid argument (invalid character) points to it being related to file encodings. Perhaps you could try the workaround suggested here: http://jaspervdj.be/hakyll/tutorials/faq.html#hgetcontents-invalid-argument-or-commitbuffer-invalid-argument

[mantkiew]

So, I ran the following commands:

$ codex cache clean
$ rm codex.tags
$ codex update

which reproduces the reported error. Then I executed:

$ /c/Windows/System32/chcp.com 65001
$ codex cache clean
$ rm codex.tags
$ codex update

Codex ran without any errors.

[aloiscochard]

Thanks both, I'll add that in the README.