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

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Bugs item #1161187, was opened at 2005-03-11 09:56
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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: Martin v. Löwis (loewis)
Date: 2005-03-12 12:14

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m_webber_sydney, can you please also try the following
procedure, and report whether it changes anything?

- uninstall your current 2.4.1 installation
- reinstall it, using the following command in a command.com
window

msiexec /i python-2.4.1c1.msi DISABLEADVTSHORTCUTS=1


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Comment By: Martin v. Löwis (loewis)
Date: 2005-03-12 11:59

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It's an "advertised shortcut" - a special OLE file  that the
shell recognizes and unpacks as a link. However, before
unpacking it, it verifies that the target file is there, and
if it isn't, it invokes invokes installer to provide the file.

According to Microsoft's documentation, installer checks
whether the IShellLink interface supports "installer
description resolution", which should be the case for W2k,
W98, and systems running IE4. If installer determines that
the system does not support advertisement, it creates an
unadvertised shortcut. So it "ought to" work on all systems.

The IDLE shortcut is unadvertised, because it is not
possible to trigger the Tkinter installation correctly.

m_webber_sydney, does the "Python (command line)" link work
correctly? It is built in the same way.


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Comment By: Tim Peters (tim_one)
Date: 2005-03-11 16:42

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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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