id,node_id,number,title,user,state,locked,assignee,milestone,comments,created_at,updated_at,closed_at,author_association,pull_request,body,repo,type,active_lock_reason,performed_via_github_app,reactions,draft,state_reason
1620515757,I_kwDOBm6k_c5glxut,2039,Subtle bug with `--load-extension` and `--static` flags with absolute Windows paths with`C:\`,15178711,open,0,,,0,2023-03-12T21:18:52Z,2023-03-12T21:18:52Z,,CONTRIBUTOR,,"From the Datasette discord: A user tried running the following command on windows:

```
datasette  --load-extension=""C:\spatialite\mod_spatialite-5.0.1-win-x86\mod_spatialite.dll""
```
This failed with `""The specified module could not be found""`, because the entrypoint option introduced in #1789 splits the input differently. Instead of loading the extension found at `""C:\spatialite\mod_spatialite-5.0.1-win-x86\mod_spatialite.dll""`, it instead tried to load the extension at `""C""` with entrypoint `""\spatialite\mod_spatialite-5.0.1-win-x86\mod_spatialite.dll"". 

This is hard because most absolute windows paths have a colon in them, like `C:\foo.txt` or `D:\bar.txt`.  I'd image the `--static` flag is also vulnerable to this type of bug.


The ""solution"" is to use a relative path instead, but that doesn't feel that great. ",107914493,issue,,,"{""url"": ""https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/2039/reactions"", ""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,