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

[Kevin A. <al...@se...>]

On Dec 27, 2005, at 2:43 PM, Andy Todd wrote:

> 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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So maybe what we should do is point out in the instructions just using  
the supplied 2.3.5 and 2.5.3.1 versions and then an install wxPython  
2.6.2.x (when available) and Python 2.4.x. I can't see PythonCard 1.0  
requiring Python 2.4 features but we will definitely want to support  
wxPython 2.6.2.x once it is available.

ka