[Distutils] installer does not see current Pythons

[Rene Liebscher]

Rene Liebscher wrote:
> 
> Any ideas how to solve this, or needs this for
> some users a special distribution as zip-file.
> 
> > Support Request #110549, was updated on 2000-Dec-22 17:22
> > You can respond by visiting:
> > http://sourceforge.net/support/?func=detailsupport&support_id=110549&group_id=5988
> >
> > Category: None
> > Status: Open
> > Priority: 5
> > Summary: installer does not see current Pythons
> >
> > By: fredy
> > Date: 2000-Dec-22 17:22
> >
> > Message:
> > Logged In: YES
> > user_id=20580
> > Browser: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 4.0)
> >
> > I downloaded PyOpenGL-1.5.6b1.win32-py1.5.2.exe and
> > executed it on my Windows NT 4.0 machine.  When the
> > installer displays the "select python installation to
> > use" screen it fails to list anything and I am
> > blocked, even though I have both Python 1.5.2 and 1.6
> > installed, along with whatever Python comes with Zope
> > 2.2.  What can I do now to install PyOpenGL?
> >
> 
Meanwhile I found out what is wrong.
The Windows installers relies on two registry entries,
but if Python is not correctly installed in the registry
it is not found.

To add these registry entries write the following code in a file
(reg.py):
##########################################################
# these entries are necessary for the distutils-Windows-installer
reg_data = """REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Python]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Python\PythonCore]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Python\PythonCore\$VERSION]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Python\PythonCore\$VERSION\InstallPath]
@="$PYTHON"
"""

import sys,string

reg_data = string.replace(reg_data,"$VERSION",sys.version[0:3])
reg_data =
string.replace(reg_data,"$PYTHON",string.replace(sys.prefix,"\\","\\\\"))

print reg_data
##########################################################

Then call it with 'python reg.py >python.reg' and double click
on python.reg. This will install the registry entries necessary for
the Windows installer.
(You can also import this file with regedit or type 'start python.reg'
at the command line.)

!!! It doesn't install all registry entries which are usually made by
Python,
but it should be enough to get distutils windows installer to work.

Kind regards

Rene Liebscher