Installing ansible-lint using Poetry returns "will-not-work-on-windows-try-from-wsl-instead" on a Mac M1

[MartinGuindon]

Summary

I'm unable to install ansible-lint in a Poetry virtual environment. I get the following error message, which is non-sensical since I am on a Mac (M1):

Because no versions of ansible-lint match >6.12.1,<7.0.0
 and ansible-lint (6.12.1) depends on will-not-work-on-windows-try-from-wsl-instead (*), ansible-lint (>=6.12.1,<7.0.0) requires will-not-work-on-windows-try-from-wsl-instead (*).

I can install the package just fine using pip in a regular virtualenv, however we are migrating all our projects to be managed using Poetry instead.

Issue Type

• Bug Report

OS / ENVIRONMENT

MacBook Pro 14" (2021), on MacOS Ventura 13.2
Python@3.9, Python@3.10 and Poetry are installed via Homebrew

ansible-lint is attempted to be installed using Poetry.

This issue was also duplicated on a Mac with a fresh OS install, with just Homebrew and the Python/Poetry dependencies.

It was also tested with Python 3.9 and 3.10.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE

1. Init a new Poetry project on a Mac using poetry init
2. Use Python 3.9 (or 3.10), and when asked about dependencies, add ansible-lint
3. Run poetry install
4. Enjoy the error message.

  ~/Code/MTLA/ansible-mac-playbook ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── ▼ ─╮
❯ poetry init                                                                                                                       ─╯

This command will guide you through creating your pyproject.toml config.

Package name [ansible-mac-playbook]:  
Version [0.1.0]:  
Description []:  
Author [Martin Guindon <14781590+MartinGuindon@users.noreply.github.com>, n to skip]:  
License []:  
Compatible Python versions [^3.11]:  ~3.9

Would you like to define your main dependencies interactively? (yes/no) [yes] yes
You can specify a package in the following forms:
  - A single name (requests): this will search for matches on PyPI
  - A name and a constraint (requests@^2.23.0)
  - A git url (git+https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry.git)
  - A git url with a revision (git+https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry.git#develop)
  - A file path (../my-package/my-package.whl)
  - A directory (../my-package/)
  - A url (https://example.com/packages/my-package-0.1.0.tar.gz)

Package to add or search for (leave blank to skip): ansible-lint
Found 20 packages matching ansible-lint
Showing the first 10 matches

Enter package # to add, or the complete package name if it is not listed []:
 [ 0] ansible-lint
 [ 1] ansible-lint-junit
 [ 2] ansible-lint-nunit
 [ 3] ansible-lint-to-junit-xml
 [ 4] lint
 [ 5] lint381
 [ 6] ansible-later
 [ 7] LintPlaybook
 [ 8] salt-lint
 [ 9] yaml-lint-to-junit-xml
 [ 10] 
 > 0
Enter the version constraint to require (or leave blank to use the latest version): 
Using version ^6.12.1 for ansible-lint

Add a package (leave blank to skip): 

Would you like to define your development dependencies interactively? (yes/no) [yes] no
Generated file

[tool.poetry]
name = "ansible-mac-playbook"
version = "0.1.0"
description = ""
authors = ["Martin Guindon <14781590+MartinGuindon@users.noreply.github.com>"]
readme = "README.md"
packages = [{include = "ansible_mac_playbook"}]

[tool.poetry.dependencies]
python = "~3.9"
ansible-lint = "^6.12.1"


[build-system]
requires = ["poetry-core"]
build-backend = "poetry.core.masonry.api"


Do you confirm generation? (yes/no) [yes] yes

  ~/Code/MTLA/ansible-mac-playbook ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── 18s   ▼ ─╮
❯ poetry install                                                                                                                    ─╯
The currently activated Python version 3.11.1 is not supported by the project (~3.9).
Trying to find and use a compatible version. 
Using python3.9 (3.9.16)
Creating virtualenv ansible-mac-playbook in /Users/martin.guindon/Code/MTLA/ansible-mac-playbook/.venv
Updating dependencies
Resolving dependencies... (0.2s)

Because no versions of ansible-lint match >6.12.1,<7.0.0
 and ansible-lint (6.12.1) depends on will-not-work-on-windows-try-from-wsl-instead (*), ansible-lint (>=6.12.1,<7.0.0) requires will-not-work-on-windows-try-from-wsl-instead (*).
So, because no versions of will-not-work-on-windows-try-from-wsl-instead match *
 and ansible-mac-playbook depends on ansible-lint (^6.12.1), version solving failed.

Desired Behavior

Package should install successfully, as it does using pip.

[ssbarnea]

Please read the docs (and existing bugs and discussions) before reporting bugs.

[emirkmo]

Hi, do you have a link? This is the first result on Google for this same issue, installing on Ubuntu via poetry.

[emirkmo]

See the following. #2820 (comment)

It does not work to just limit the platform to be non-windows. You need to explicitly add markers = "platform_system != 'Windows'" as well.

[PieterPaulussen]

Anyone who might come across this in the future. A quick code fix would be:

ansible-lint = {version = "^24.2.3", markers = "platform_system != 'Windows'"}

Worked for me.