-- Regards, Benjamin
On Sun, Jan 5, 2014, at 04:19 PM, Bob Hanson wrote: > On Sun, 05 Jan 2014 13:20:50 -0800, Larry Hastings wrote: > > > On behalf of the Python development team, I'm pleased to announce > > the second beta release of Python 3.4. > > Thanks, Larry and all the devs, your hard work is appreciated. > > However, why does this new version look like adware or other > malware when installing? > > This is the first time I ever installed a version of Python which > caused something called "MSIEXEC.EXE" to try to access some > commercial dot-com site. > > Naturally, my firewall stopped it, but what's going on? > > (A "command prompt" Windows box opened, followed by my firewall > firing off a set of warnings about having blocked attempted > unauthorized outbound connections to blah-blah-blah-dot-com.) Well, what is blah-blah-blah.com exactly? > > When I attempted to run the python interpreter it appeared to > open normally, but I haven't tried doing anything with it. > > If this has to do with "ensure_pip" or whatever it's called, > perhaps some other solution is called for which is more > user-friendly and not as likely to incite unease and mistrust by > attempting to silently access a commercial site while Python is > installing. At the very least a warning seems to be called for > (possibly along with an opt-out). Also, a more friendly site > (python.org?) to connect to would help to restore some faith. > > If it *is* about the pip thing, I can only imagine the > frustration of Window users: Having to reconfigure firewalls to > (properly?) upgrade Python, or ignoring the firewall-warning > "glitch" assuming it's okay. Or, possibly, a silent failure of > "something" if they're firewalled with warnings turned off? > > If it's not pip, what is it? > > Finally, is my install now broken? Are offline installs now not > possible. Does one now need an always-on internet connection to > use Python? > > Thanks -- > > Bob Hanson > > -- > Snowden reveals that George Orwell was an extreme optimist. > > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/benjamin%40python.org _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
