Re: installer user interface glitch ?

2015-11-03 Thread alister
On Sun, 01 Nov 2015 08:24:22 -0800, rurpy wrote: > On Sunday, November 1, 2015 at 8:52:55 AM UTC-7, Chris Angelico wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 2:43 AM, rurpy--- via Python-list >> wrote: >> > Why, oh why, do the python.org front page and other pages that offer >> > a Windows download not say

Re: installer user interface glitch ?

2015-11-02 Thread rurpy--- via Python-list
On Sunday, November 1, 2015 at 2:48:58 PM UTC-7, Laura Creighton wrote: > Actually, adding the XP - do not look here -- > message for several webpages has been on the pydotorg > todo list for more than a week now. > > Not sure why it hasn't happened. > > Thank you for the reminder. You're welcom

Re: installer user interface glitch ?

2015-11-01 Thread Chris Angelico
On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 12:32 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Mon, 2 Nov 2015 03:43 am, Chris Angelico wrote: > >> Remember, people can click a direct download link >> *on the python.org front page* and be immediately downloading Python 2 >> or 3 for the OS that the browser announces. Where would y

Re: installer user interface glitch ?

2015-11-01 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Mon, 2 Nov 2015 03:43 am, Chris Angelico wrote: > Remember, people can click a direct download link > *on the python.org front page* and be immediately downloading Python 2 > or 3 for the OS that the browser announces. Where would you put the > big fat noisy warning? Maybe the website shouldn'

Re: installer user interface glitch ?

2015-11-01 Thread Terry Reedy
On 11/1/2015 10:54 AM, Michiel Overtoom wrote: On 01 Nov 2015, at 16:43, rurpy--- via Python-list wrote: Why, oh why, do the python.org front page and other pages that offer a Windows download not say a word about it not running on Windows XP? I'm also curious why Python 3.5 won't run on Wi

Re: installer user interface glitch ?

2015-11-01 Thread Terry Reedy
On 11/1/2015 5:28 PM, boB Stepp wrote: On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 3:48 PM, Laura Creighton wrote: Actually, adding the XP - do not look here -- message for several webpages has been on the pydotorg todo list for more than a week now. Not sure why it hasn't happened. Thank you for the reminder.

Re: installer user interface glitch ?

2015-11-01 Thread Chris Angelico
On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 9:28 AM, boB Stepp wrote: > Of course if such > people would only type in their issue into their favorite search > engine... But that is a different issue--heavy sigh! In their defense, "the installer for Python has a blank window" isn't nearly as internet-searchable as an

Re: installer user interface glitch ?

2015-11-01 Thread boB Stepp
On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 3:48 PM, Laura Creighton wrote: > Actually, adding the XP - do not look here -- > message for several webpages has been on the pydotorg > todo list for more than a week now. > > Not sure why it hasn't happened. > > Thank you for the reminder. I have to confess I do not unde

Re: installer user interface glitch ?

2015-11-01 Thread Laura Creighton
Actually, adding the XP - do not look here -- message for several webpages has been on the pydotorg todo list for more than a week now. Not sure why it hasn't happened. Thank you for the reminder. Laura -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: installer user interface glitch ?

2015-11-01 Thread MRAB
On 2015-11-01 19:41, rurpy--- via Python-list wrote: On 11/01/2015 09:43 AM, Chris Angelico wrote: On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 3:24 AM, rurpy--- via Python-list wrote: [snip] That is really shitty customer relations. See above, and define 'customer'. customer: the people to whom you are provi

Re: installer user interface glitch ?

2015-11-01 Thread rurpy--- via Python-list
On 11/01/2015 09:43 AM, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 3:24 AM, rurpy--- via Python-list > wrote: >> I dont recall seeing anyone posting asking why they could not get >> Python to install on Windows 95 recently. I only read this group >> intermittently but I have seen *many* post

Re: installer user interface glitch ?

2015-11-01 Thread Laura Creighton
In a message of Sun, 01 Nov 2015 17:56:33 +, Grant Edwards writes: >On 2015-11-01, Laura Creighton wrote: > >> The whole message of 'get a newer os' is decidedly hard for them. >> "It works fine, like my 2004 Ford car" they want to tell you. > >Except it _doesn't_ work fine, or they wouldn't b

Re: installer user interface glitch ?

2015-11-01 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2015-11-01, Laura Creighton wrote: > The whole message of 'get a newer os' is decidedly hard for them. > "It works fine, like my 2004 Ford car" they want to tell you. Except it _doesn't_ work fine, or they wouldn't be complaining. If you want to run Python 3.5, then XP just doesn't work. Wh

Re: installer user interface glitch ?

2015-11-01 Thread Laura Creighton
The important thing is that, numbers-wise, windowsXP was the version of computer a whole lot of people got when they got their first computer. The notion of, not it "wearing out" but that the whole world "wore out" or "advanced beyond" them is foreign to them. They aren't computer-hobbyists -- t

Re: installer user interface glitch ?

2015-11-01 Thread Chris Angelico
On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 3:39 AM, Michael Torrie wrote: > On 11/01/2015 03:08 AM, Chris Angelico wrote: >> Windows XP has now been around for twelve years. > > It's older than that. Release date was August 1, 2001. More than 14 > years ago. My how the time flies. > > Though more recent versions o

Re: installer user interface glitch ?

2015-11-01 Thread Chris Angelico
On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 3:24 AM, rurpy--- via Python-list wrote: > I dont recall seeing anyone posting asking why they could not get > Python to install on Windows 95 recently. I only read this group > intermittently but I have seen *many* posts asking why they couldnt > install on XP. > > You ack

Re: installer user interface glitch ?

2015-11-01 Thread Michael Torrie
On 11/01/2015 03:08 AM, Chris Angelico wrote: > Windows XP has now been around for twelve years. It's older than that. Release date was August 1, 2001. More than 14 years ago. My how the time flies. Though more recent versions of Windows have added features (which Python now takes advantage o

Re: installer user interface glitch ?

2015-11-01 Thread rurpy--- via Python-list
On Sunday, November 1, 2015 at 8:52:55 AM UTC-7, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 2:43 AM, rurpy--- via Python-list > wrote: > > Why, oh why, do the python.org front page and other pages that offer > > a Windows download not say a word about it not running on Windows XP? > > > > Eve

Re: installer user interface glitch ?

2015-11-01 Thread Michiel Overtoom
> On 01 Nov 2015, at 16:43, rurpy--- via Python-list > wrote: > > Why, oh why, do the python.org front page and other pages that offer > a Windows download not say a word about it not running on Windows XP? I'm also curious why Python 3.5 won't run on Windows XP. Which features does it use th

Re: installer user interface glitch ?

2015-11-01 Thread Chris Angelico
On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 2:43 AM, rurpy--- via Python-list wrote: > Why, oh why, do the python.org front page and other pages that offer > a Windows download not say a word about it not running on Windows XP? > > Even if one is anal enough to go to the page about the 3.5 release. > https://www.pyt

Re: installer user interface glitch ?

2015-11-01 Thread rurpy--- via Python-list
On 11/01/2015 03:06 AM, Chris Warrick wrote: > On 1 November 2015 at 09:23, t_ciorba--- via Python-list > wrote: >> >> hi, i am not sure what is wrong, but after launching the installer >> for windows XPsp3 python-3.5.0.exe i couldnt see what i have to >> select, it was a white board and the onl

Re: installer user interface glitch ?

2015-11-01 Thread Laura Creighton
In a message of Sun, 01 Nov 2015 11:24:55 +0100, Laura Creighton writes: >In a message of Sun, 01 Nov 2015 10:23:15 +0200, t_ciorba--- via Python-list wr >ites: >>hi, >>i am not sure what is wrong, but after launching the installer for windows >>XPsp3 python-3.5.0.exe i couldnt see what i have to

Re: installer user interface glitch ?

2015-11-01 Thread Laura Creighton
In a message of Sun, 01 Nov 2015 10:23:15 +0200, t_ciorba--- via Python-list wr ites: >hi, >i am not sure what is wrong, but after launching the installer for windows >XPsp3 python-3.5.0.exe i couldnt see what i have to select, it was a white >board and the only button on it was "cancel". here is

Re: installer user interface glitch ?

2015-11-01 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 7:23 PM, t_ciorba--- via Python-list wrote: > > i am not sure what is wrong, but after launching the installer for windows > XPsp3 python-3.5.0.exe i couldnt see what i have to select, it was a white > board and the only button on it was "cancel". > Yep. The installer isn

Re: installer user interface glitch ?

2015-11-01 Thread Chris Warrick
On 1 November 2015 at 09:23, t_ciorba--- via Python-list wrote: > > hi, > i am not sure what is wrong, but after launching the installer for windows > XPsp3 python-3.5.0.exe i couldnt see what i have to select, it was a white > board and the only button on it was "cancel". here is a screen of it

Re: installer for py2exe files?

2009-04-22 Thread Werner F. Bruhin
Hi Gabriel, Gabriel Rossetti wrote: Hello everyone, I am wanting to create an installer for my project. I first use py2exe to create win32 executables and then would like to have an easy to use (for the end user) installer. I use InnoSetup - link already given by David. I would need the ins

Re: installer for py2exe files?

2009-04-22 Thread David Lyon
Hi Gabriel, look at ... - inno setup http://jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php - nsis http://sourceforge.net/projects/nsis/ I think these are the two clear leaders for open source... On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 11:17:10 +0200, Gabriel Rossetti wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I am wanting to create an installe

Re: installer for py2exe files?

2009-04-22 Thread Chris Rebert
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 2:17 AM, Gabriel Rossetti wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I am wanting to create an installer for my project. I first use py2exe to > create win32 executables and then would like to have an easy to use (for the > end user) installer. I would need the installer to launch a scri

Re: Installer

2008-04-24 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 2008-04-24 18:39, Chris wrote: Hey all, I've created a python program that relies on pysqlite, wxpython, and matplotlib. Is there any way of creating an installer that will install all these modules, python 2.5 and my program? Assuming that you're on Windows, a well-working approach is to w

Re: Installer

2008-04-24 Thread Mike Driscoll
On Apr 24, 11:39 am, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey all, > > I've created a python program that relies on pysqlite, wxpython, and > matplotlib. Is there any way of creating an installer that will > install all these modules, python 2.5 and my program? > > Thanks. Chris, If all you're doin

Re: Installer

2008-04-24 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> I've created a python program that relies on pysqlite, wxpython, and > matplotlib. Is there any way of creating an installer that will > install all these modules, python 2.5 and my program? Sure. Look at Tools/msi in the Python code, and adjust it to your needs. Please don't use the official pr

Re: installer question

2005-12-09 Thread Larry Bates
Take a look at Inno Installer. You should be able to do everything you list. You may also want to consider using py2exe to package up your python program into .exe prior to creating installer file. That way you eliminate the requirement of having python, pythonwin32 installed and you don't have

Re: installer for amd64 build of python?

2005-10-13 Thread Trent Mick
[Brett Hoerner wrote] > Thanks, looking at their site I can't find a Platform SDK for XP... am > I looking for the Windows 2003 Server SDK...? Seems counter-intuitive Yes, I believe that is the one I am using. MS seems to aim for minimal intuitive-factor with Platform SDK version naming. Trent

Re: installer for amd64 build of python?

2005-10-13 Thread Steve Holden
Brett Hoerner wrote: > Trent Mick wrote: > >>Yes. The MS Platform SDK is free and includes a compiler that can target >>x86, ia64 and x64 (the latter is what MS -- and Sun -- are calling >>AMD64). > > > Thanks, looking at their site I can't find a Platform SDK for XP... am > I looking for the Wi

Re: installer for amd64 build of python?

2005-10-13 Thread Brett Hoerner
Trent Mick wrote: > Yes. The MS Platform SDK is free and includes a compiler that can target > x86, ia64 and x64 (the latter is what MS -- and Sun -- are calling > AMD64). Thanks, looking at their site I can't find a Platform SDK for XP... am I looking for the Windows 2003 Server SDK...? Seems co

Re: installer for amd64 build of python?

2005-10-13 Thread Trent Mick
[Brett Hoerner wrote] > As an aside to this, are there any freely available C compilers for > Windows that can compile 64-bit binaries? I find nothing for Cygwin or > MinGW... Yes. The MS Platform SDK is free and includes a compiler that can target x86, ia64 and x64 (the latter is what MS -- and

Re: installer for amd64 build of python?

2005-10-13 Thread Brett Hoerner
As an aside to this, are there any freely available C compilers for Windows that can compile 64-bit binaries? I find nothing for Cygwin or MinGW... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: installer for amd64 build of python?

2005-10-13 Thread magneticlemur
Martin, >I'm not at all mystified. The operating system was only released >after the release of Python 2.4, there is no official compiler >available yet to the general public, and I don't have the hardware >to test such a release. >It's fairly likely that Python 2.5 will not see official AMD64 >Win

Re: installer for amd64 build of python?

2005-10-13 Thread Paul Rubin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Does anyone know of an available downloader for an amd64 bit > build of (a modern) python? I've gotten a bug report from someone using Python under Linux on an amd64, so compiling for 64 bits definitely is feasible. You could try the Fedora Core 4 amd64 distro (http://

Re: installer for amd64 build of python?

2005-10-13 Thread Martin v. Löwis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Does anyone know of an available downloader for an amd64 bit > build of (a modern) python? There is no official build. The only official Win64 build is for Itanium, see www.python.org/2.4.2 > I've done my due diligence search of python docs and > mailing archives, and I

Re: installer for amd64 build of python?

2005-10-13 Thread magneticlemur
Brett, >I don't have an answer for you, but just to clarity for future >readers... based on the quote above, I assume you mean a native 64-bit >build for Windows, right? You never stated what platform you need this >for, I for one use a 64-bit build of Python on Linux just fine... but >yes, Windo

Re: installer for amd64 build of python?

2005-10-12 Thread Brett Hoerner
> Alternatively, does anyone have experience > of using the visual studio files in the PCBuild > directory under amd64? I don't have an answer for you, but just to clarity for future readers... based on the quote above, I assume you mean a native 64-bit build for Windows, right? You never stated

Re: Installer made with bdist_wininst segfaulting...

2005-01-25 Thread Fernando Perez
Thomas Heller wrote: > There are a couple of known bugs in bdist_wininst, and you just reported > another one. All these bugs are related to using the > post_install_script, and show up when either (thats what I currently > remember): > > - the installer is run from a readonly location, > - the

Re: Installer made with bdist_wininst segfaulting...

2005-01-25 Thread Fernando Perez
Hi Thomas, Thomas Heller wrote: > Fernando Perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Here is a brief summary: if the installer file is run from a windows drive >> which is different from the one where python resides (and hence where >> ipython will >> end up), the installer segfaults. No traceback,

Re: Installer made with bdist_wininst segfaulting...

2005-01-25 Thread Thomas Heller
Fernando Perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all, > > I am seeking advice/help from those with more win32 experience than myself. I > am trying to build a proper win32 installer for IPython, after a user did most > of the hard work. For the most part, it's working very well, but I am running

Re: installer

2004-12-02 Thread Gerhard Haering
On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 12:15:04AM +0530, km wrote: > Hi all, > > does python have a default module installer inbuilt as for perl in > windows ? No, there is no CPAN-like system for Python. You will have to search, download and install your third-party Python libraries yourself. OTOH, there are