[ python-Bugs-1161187 ] Install problem 2.4.1rc1 on Win98

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Bugs item #1161187, was opened at 2005-03-11 03:56
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Category: Installation
Group: Python 2.4
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Spider (m_webber_sydney)
>Assigned to: Martin v. Löwis (loewis)
Summary: Install problem 2.4.1rc1 on Win98

Initial Comment:
Python 2.4.1 Release Candidate 1.

I installed (with all the defautl settings)
python-2.4.1c1.msi on a Windows 98 machine.

The shortcuts in the Start / Programs / Python 2.4
group includes a shortcut named "Python Manuals".

This shortcut is inactive  - does not point to anything
valid, and clicking on it does not bring up the manuals.

I assume that the shortcut should point to
C:/Python24/Doc/Python24.chm which certainly exists on
my machine and works ok if I access it directly.

I guess the install builds the shortcut wrongly.


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>Comment By: Tim Peters (tim_one)
Date: 2005-03-11 10:42

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Assigning to Martin.  Martin, what kind of "shortcut" does the 
installer build now -- could it perhaps depend on an NTFS 
feature, like hard links?  Why I ask:

When I right-click on, e.g., "IDLE (Python GUI)" and select 
Properties in a 2.3 installation, I get "the expected" kind of 
window, with a Shortcut tab containing

C:\Python23\pythonw.exe "C:\Python23\Lib\idlelib\idle.pyw"

in the Target box, which is an editable string.  When I do the 
same with 2.4.1c1 (and don't know about 2.4 -- never tried 
this there), the Shortcut tab's Target box contains just

Python 2.4.1c1

and that's greyed out -- can't edit it.  The "Find Target .." 
and "Change Icon .." buttons are greyed out too.

It _works_ for me anyway, but I'm on WinXP + NTFS here.

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