On 10/18/05, arkady godin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Sebastian and Tom, > > How would those instructions get modified if someone wanted to run School > Tool ( vs. School Bell ) as a Windows Service ? > > I've been trying to install School Tool in Windows XP and spent the whole > evening exchanging e-mails with Tom, but was never able to make python work > on my machine. > > I would be happy to give one more shot to install School Tool as a Service > and report whether I was successful or failed again.
Hi Arkady, I do feel like I abandoned you a bit... I just can't imagine what the problem getting Python running could be, and SchoolTool won't work at all without it. The only workaround I've been able to think of, and that I'm a bit reluctuant to suggest is installing the Cygwin http://cygwin.com tools, which is a set of Unix tools for Windows that can include its own Python. The Cygwin package has been around a long time and is very safe and stable. It is just a kind of large workaround. > Tom, > > Do you have any plans to provide Windows customers with an integrated > Windows Installation ( all of those 10 steps taken care of by installer with > a "Finish" button at the end ) ? It would be ideal if python were > installed/validated by installer as a part of School Tool installation > considering how much time I've spent trying to make it work without any > level of success. Yes, we would like to get to that stage. We need a Windows maintainer who is interested in making it work. Also, that service script is quite rough, and I'd worry if many people started relying on it in production. On the other hand, your Python problems are completely weird. Python's support for Windows is excellent, and many Python developers use Windows. So generally, that step isn't such a hurdle. --Tom _______________________________________________ Schooltool mailing list [email protected] http://lists.schooltool.org/mailman/listinfo/schooltool
