Windows install has problems. Guido asked that I use this newsgroup to discus further
Mauro Cicognini
mcicogni at siosistemi.it
Thu Apr 22 19:17:36 EDT 1999
Barry Scott wrote:
> >I wish I could. The installer is very stupid. Windows sucks :-(
>
> Is the WISE installer unable to deal with Win 9X vs. NT and handle
> registry queries and updates? I'm sure that I can do this with
> InstallShield (a poorly designed, annoying, but functional installer).
WISE sure can. We use it every other day and it really works a lot better than
InstallShield.
> As for the tcl80.dll problems. Either assume that tcl80.dll is in the
> standard (english) installation place
> %systemdrive%\program files\tcl\bin\tcl80.dll.
Mmm, since I'm not an English-language OS user, I'd rather see that as
%programfolder%\tcl\bin\tcl80.dll (I don't remember exactly, but I'm sure there
is a way to refer in a language-independent way to the folder that the US
version calls "Program Files" since we use it in our installations.
> OR release note that users must add the Tcl bin dir to there PATH.
>
Might as well (and make them aware that they need it some way or another).
> As the python lib does not have a module to access the registry it makes
> getting the info from the registry hard.
>
> Maybe 1.6 needs a windows registry module to solve this and
> other problems.
>
?
We use Mark Hammond's extensions and have no problem at all in fetching things
from the registry. Might just ask him and fold in the registry-access stuff.
>
> BArry
Mauro
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