Re: [Python-Dev] Building a Windows MSI for Python /trunk

2009-11-26 Thread David Bolen
"Martin v. Löwis" writes: > It was too difficult to get right, plus nobody was interested in > using the daily MSI files. > > At some point, it was broken for several months (IIRC), with nobody > reporting that breakage. So when we noticed, we just turned the service > off. Sounds right - the da

Re: [Python-Dev] Building a Windows MSI for Python /trunk

2009-11-26 Thread Martin v. Löwis
>> You'll need to build release versions of Tcl/Tk/Tix. > > Yes, I saw a reference to that online, but I wasn't sure if that was the > problem -- is the naming convention really that 'tcl85g.lib' is the debug > lib!? Yes; Tcl apparently follows Unix conventions here rather than Windows convention

Re: [Python-Dev] Building a Windows MSI for Python /trunk

2009-11-26 Thread C. Titus Brown
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 09:54:35AM +0100, "Martin v. L?wis" wrote: > > First, the script that finds & builds the external dependencies has two > > minor problems. > > > > * it puts Tcl in tcl-8.*, and Tk in tk-8.*, but msi.py looks for them in > >tcl8.* and tk8.* to grab the license text. I

Re: [Python-Dev] Building a Windows MSI for Python /trunk

2009-11-26 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> First, the script that finds & builds the external dependencies has two > minor problems. > > * it puts Tcl in tcl-8.*, and Tk in tk-8.*, but msi.py looks for them in >tcl8.* and tk8.* to grab the license text. I changed the glob strings >appropriately and that seemed to work. Not sur

[Python-Dev] Building a Windows MSI for Python /trunk

2009-11-25 Thread C. Titus Brown
Hi all, I got an MSI build working on my WinXP VM just now, and I wanted to touch base with whomever it is that is maintaining this (wonderful!) set of scripts... I ran into three problems, and I managed to figure out two of them; the third wasn't fatal. Note, the diff of my fixed checkout is at