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[Pythoncard-users] Windows installer problem

[Peter C. N. <spa...@le...>]

I am evaluating pythoncard for use in a book focused on new users who
will be learning how to program, and program in python.

Under debian linux, pythoncard installs and runs fine, but under
windows (w2k pro) the installer is failing.

I see that others have run into this problem.  Is this isolated or are
other windows users running into this as well?

-Peter

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Re: [Pythoncard-users] Windows installer problem

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

Peter C. Norton wrote:
> I am evaluating pythoncard for use in a book focused on new users who
> will be learning how to program, and program in python.
> 
> Under debian linux, pythoncard installs and runs fine, but under
> windows (w2k pro) the installer is failing.
> 
> I see that others have run into this problem.  Is this isolated or are
> other windows users running into this as well?
> 
> -Peter
> 

Which installer are you referring to? As mentioned earlier there *is* a 
problem installing PythonCard on Windows using the .exe if you have 
Python 2.4

Is this the case or are you experiencing another problem?

Regards,
Andy
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Re: [Pythoncard-users] Windows installer problem

[Peter C. N. <spa...@le...>]

On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 09:47:47PM +1100, Andy Todd wrote:
> Which installer are you referring to? As mentioned earlier there *is* a 
> problem installing PythonCard on Windows using the .exe if you have 
> Python 2.4
> 
> Is this the case or are you experiencing another problem?
> 
> Regards,
> Andy

Andy,

I didn't see in the archives that the 2.4 installer had a confirmed
problem.  That is indeed what I am using.  

Excuse me for asking if this has already been posted, but is there an
expected fix coming down for this?  If you just tell me what to google
for for the answer, I'll stop bothering you about this.

Thanks,

-Peter

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Re: [Pythoncard-users] Windows installer problem

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

Peter C. Norton wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 09:47:47PM +1100, Andy Todd wrote:
> 
>>Which installer are you referring to? As mentioned earlier there *is* a 
>>problem installing PythonCard on Windows using the .exe if you have 
>>Python 2.4
>>
>>Is this the case or are you experiencing another problem?
>>
>>Regards,
>>Andy
> 
> 
> Andy,
> 
> I didn't see in the archives that the 2.4 installer had a confirmed
> problem.  That is indeed what I am using.  
> 
> Excuse me for asking if this has already been posted, but is there an
> expected fix coming down for this?  If you just tell me what to google
> for for the answer, I'll stop bothering you about this.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Peter
> 

It's only just hit the mailing list. I tested the .exe installer with 
Python 2.3 and 2.4 yesterday. As Kevin mentioned in his post to the list 
you can *always* use the .zip distribution. Just download the file, 
expand it into a directory of your choice and at the command prompt type;

python setup.py install

And Bob will be your Aunty's live in lover.

As I said in response to the other post raising this issue the error 
message you see happens *after* the installation of PythonCard has 
finished and so shouldn't affect your enjoyment of the toolkit. It just 
isn't a great idea to have error messages routinely appear as part of an 
automated installation. The problem has been noted though, and will no 
doubt be addressed in the next release of PythonCard.

Regards,
Andy
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