Re: [Pythoncard-devel] Mac Tiger install instructions needed

[Andy T. <an...@ha...>]

bra...@om... wrote:
> 
> Kevin Altis wrote on 12/27/2005 01:54:59 PM:
> 
>  > I'm still running Panther on my PowerBook and given my aversion to
>  > changing things that seem to work fine I probably won't upgrade until I
>  > get a new machine next year. That means I don't have an easy way to
>  > write install instructions for Tiger, which we definitely need. I went
>  > ahead and added duplicates of the current panther install instructions
>  > to cvs macosx_panther_installation.html,
>  > macosx_tiger_installation.html. Any Tiger install instructions are
>  > probably going to need to incorporate the info at:
>  >
>  > http://undefined.org/python/#TigerPython23Compat
>  >
>  > Can anyone with a Tiger system tweak the macosx_tiger_installation.html
>  > document so we can add that to the main site. If it needs to use Python
>  > 2.4.x and a later version of wxPython that is fine. I'll push this
>  > request to the users list if none of us have access to Tiger.
>  >
> 
> 
> I'm using PythonCard with wx 2.6.1 and Python 2.3.5 on Tiger, but I had
> an error during the wx binary install. I've seen that same error on every
> Tiger system I've tried.
> 
> What I did was install TigerPython23Compat.pkg and then run the binary
> wx installer for Panther. After running the binary install, an error
> message appears in the GUI stating "There was an error during the install.
> Please try again."
> 
> Trying again doesn't make the error message go away.
> 
> I don't know what's generating that error message, but wx seems to work
> anyway. It still has some visual bugs, but I don't think that has anything
> to do with Tiger--I seen the same visual bugs under Panther. These visual
> glitches are associated with wx 2.6.x and don't happen under 2.5.3.
> (PythonCard TextField widgets don't display properly when populated
> during on_initialize -- the text is left scrolled out of view).
> 
> Tiger does bundle wxPython 2.5.3 unicode, so if that version is acceptable
> some users may be able to skip installing wx. Since PythonCard seems
> to have less visual glitches under 2.5.3, maybe we should just recommend
> using the bundled wx on the instructions page. That would considerably
> simplify the instructions.
> 
> On the other hand, some folks may want to use Python 2.4.x. That will
> probably entail installing a separate copy of wx....

On my shiny new Powerbook everything appears to be working fine from a 
fresh CVS checkout.

I can confirm that I'm using the Apple supplied versions of Python 
(2.3.5) and wxPython (2.5.3.1).

I haven't tried installing wxPython 2.6 so can't corroborate Brad's 
issues with strange error messages.

Regards,
Andy
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