SciPy won't install (Win98)

[Gary Pajer]

Thanks, but no luck yet. Your installer script returns with "File name in
directory "gui_thread/examples.py" and header "gui_thread\examples.py"
differ.

Note the slashes.  They are different. There must be some rediculously easy
solution if the problem is the slash.

Further comments:
  --the published SciPy prereqs say "Python 2.1 or better" (I have Python
2.2 in c:\python22)

  --examples.py is the *second* file in the archive, the first being
gui_thread\__init__.py.   Why might it choke on the *second* entry?  I have
no way of knowing if it swallowed the first.

  --my file is a exe, not a zip.  Does your script care?

BTW, that script is a great idea.

-Gary




"Thomas Heller" <theller at python.net> wrote in message
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> "Gary Pajer" <pajer at iname.com> wrote in message
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> > I just downloaded the SciPy installation .exe, and it won't run
properly.
> > The second screen asks me to choose which installation of Python I'd
like to
> > put SciPy in.  But the field is blank, and down below in the text
control
> > box, there is a blinking grey cursor, but I can't type anything into the
> > field.  I downloaded it again: no change.
>
> This is a 'feature' of distutils' bdist_wininst installer: It only
> displays those Python versions compatible with the installer.
> Apparently the scipy guys built it for Python 2.3 (that's the current
> CVS version in development).
> But there is hope: If you want to install from a bdist_wininst installer
> (which gives you the uninstall feature), you can build it yourself.
> The most convenient way to do this is probably to use this cookbook
> recipe:
> http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/117248
>
> Thomas
>
>
>