[Pythonmac-SIG] MacPython 2.1.1c2 available

[Jack Jansen]

Recently, Russell E Owen <owen@astro.washington.edu> said:
> Some tiny cosmetic things which might be worth fixing someday, not 
> necessarily for 2.1.1:
> - after the installer finishes, it launches ConfigurePythonCarbon, 
> which takes a VERY long time to come to the front and then sits there 
> silently doing something for several minutes (this is on a 466MHz G4 
> with plenty of RAM, so I wonder what it's like on an older machine). 
> During this time a user might think the computer had hung. I'm very 
> puzzled by this delay, as simply launching ConfigurePython(either) 
> directly is really fast. It's as if VISE is taking way too much CPU 
> time to allow ConfigurePythonCarbon to run normally.

This delay is very weird. Sometimes I see it, sometimes I don't. I
hadn't noticed it showing up before running ConfigurePythonCarbon
myself, only at the very end.

According to the Mindvision people the delay is actually in the
finder, which is creating icon positions or somesuch for all the files
that have just been dumped on the disk.

Something I thought of earlier this week iss that the deciding factor
for delay/no delay may be whether file sharing is enabled. I've
noticed in other situations (like when I'm building the Python
distribution) that copying large numbers of files is significantly
slower (as in 5-10 times slower) if file sharing is enabled.

I think I'll leave it as-is for 2.1.1, and for 2.2 I'll post the
dialog a bit earlier.

> - the initial active installer screen still says this is the first 
> version to use an active installer.

Ah, thanks, I'll fix this.
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