On Nov 21, 2006, at 5:49 AM, Spider wrote:

>
>> I haven't tagged 1.0b2 yet, but I wanted to put one out there as a  
>> test.
>> http://www.turbogears.org/test/
>
> I tested this under windows. Playing the part of the dumb user, I went
> to python.org and downloaded and installed python. Then I downloaded
> tgsetup.script and clicked on it. Something flashed up and then
> disappeared. What happened? Obviously the .py file ran in a DOS box.
> So, I start up a command window so I see what happens, and run
> tgsetup.py. I see a message saying that Turbogears needs Python 2.4  
> not
> 2.5.
>
> Looking at the donwload page, I now see the reference to needing 2.4 -
> that's ok, but put that at the top. I never read down that far!
>
> Lessons :
> (1) Download page should spell out the Python release limitation.

Good point.

> (2) Ideally the TG installer would be a proper windows install file
> (.msi) but I guess this has been discussed before.

I'd certainly be happy to take a contributed Windows installer. MSI  
files aren't just XML, right? I'm assuming there's a compiler (that  
only runs on Windows) for them.

Kevin



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