RE: [Python-Dev] Windows installer request...
From: Tim Peters [mailto:tim.one@comcast.net]
[Bjorn Pettersen] [...]
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Enough already
: I don't have time to try umpteen different things here, or really even one.
Thank you for doing it anyway then <smile>.
What I did do is build an installer *just* removing the hard-coded Wizard-generated "C:" prefix. Martin tried that and said it worked for him. It doesn't hurt me. If it works for you too, I'll commit the change:
Works like a charm. Tested on Win98, Win2k, WinXP Pro (regular), and my "special" XP. (NT4 seems to have died a silent death, so I couldn't test it there...)
Please give that a try. It's an incoherent mix if files, so please use a junk name for the installation directory and program startup group (or simply abort the install after you see whether it suggested a drive you approve of).
I went all the way through (all files seems to have gone in correctly), and as expected it shadowed my original install of 2.3b1 in the Add/Remove Programs window. Surprisingly however, the original came back after this one was removed. Who'd have thought.. ;-) [.. xx.wse needs the Wise GUI to create an installer..] Thought it might be that way... FWIW, re: the MSVC7 debate, the "Microsoft Development Environment" (DevStudio), comes with five different "Setup and Deployment projects". I've never used any of them, nor Wise (obviously :-), but it could potentially get you out of the loop... <wink>. Thanks again! -- bjorn
[Tim]
Enough already
: I don't have time to try umpteen different things here, or really even one.
[Bjorn Pettersen]
Thank you for doing it anyway then <smile>.
You're welcome! I took the "C:" out on Monday, when I had just enough spare time to delete one byte, and took the rest out of sleep.
... Works like a charm. Tested on Win98, Win2k, WinXP Pro (regular), and my "special" XP. (NT4 seems to have died a silent death, so I couldn't test it there...)
Thanks! I'll check it in ... Thursday.
Please give that a try. It's an incoherent mix if files, so please use a junk name for the installation directory and program startup group (or simply abort the install after you see whether it suggested a drive you approve of).
I went all the way through (all files seems to have gone in correctly), and as expected it shadowed my original install of 2.3b1 in the Add/Remove Programs window. Surprisingly however, the original came back after this one was removed. Who'd have thought.. ;-)
The rollback features in Wise 8.14-generated installers are pretty good (esp. if you check the "make backups" option when installing). Uninstall/rollback will even restore start menu groups and file associations. I don't trust it enough to recommend it, though (I haven't really beat on it). Something fun to waste time: in the very last "Installation Completed!" install dialog, click "Cancel" instead of "Finish". It will then roll back all the changes it made, leaving things as they were before you started the installer.
... FWIW, re: the MSVC7 debate, the "Microsoft Development Environment" (DevStudio), comes with five different "Setup and Deployment projects". I've never used any of them, nor Wise (obviously :-), but it could potentially get you out of the loop... <wink>.
Thanks, but I'm not sure even death has that kind of power.
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