[Pythonmac-SIG] Python 2.3b2-2 installer
Russell E Owen
owen at astro.washington.edu
Thu Jul 3 17:10:45 EDT 2003
I deleted my old Python:
- /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework
- /Applications/MacPython
- /usr/local/bin/python* (except python2.2)
- ~/Library/Preferences/python...
The installer ran perfectly.
The Package Manager also now runs (yaay!) and the description panel
is great (it is new, isn't it? if not, I'm embarrassed). Solves the
problem of truncated descriptions. The remaining nits are:
- It cannot not find a plist. Apparently this is because my MacOS X
is too old (10.2.3) but the message really doesn't give any clue
about that.
- I can still get a traceback for invalid URLs in the package
manager, but most URLs I tried give a nice error message instead of a
traceback. One that reliably gives a traceback (appended) is
"http://python.org/packman". I'll file a sourceforge bug report right
now.
- Descriptions of packages with more than one version should say
something to help the user pick a version (e.g. binary? source?).
- The business of listing different flavors of the same package in
the main list still bothers me, though I think it's not worth trying
to solve until after 2.3 release. I find it confusing (and think
naive users are really going to be confused). Also when I installed
Numeric binary I found that both binary and source now say "yes".
Weird. Here is a suggestion for a modified interface:
- List only the main package names in the main list, do not list
different versions.
- Have a separate "version" panel that shows which versions are
available for the selected package.
- The user can then pick which version to install
- Hopefully you can also indicate which version is actually installed
- Have a "recommended" version. This has two advantages:
- you can highlight it in the version panel
- you can HIDE the version panel for naive users and just
automatically pick the recommended version
In conclusion, things are good. My complex aqua Tcl/Tk application works great.
-- Russell
File "Wapplication.py", line 45, in mainloop
self.do1event(mask, wait)
File "FrameWork.py", line 194, in do1event
self.dispatch(event)
File "FrameWork.py", line 227, in dispatch
handler(event)
File "FrameWork.py", line 289, in do_mouseDown
handler(partcode, wid, event)
File "Wapplication.py", line 203, in do_inMenuBar
self.do_rawmenu(id, item, window, event)
File "FrameWork.py", line 314, in do_rawmenu
self.do_menu(id, item, window, event)
File "FrameWork.py", line 321, in do_menu
self.menubar.dispatch(id, item, window, event)
File "Wapplication.py", line 445, in dispatch
self.menus[id].dispatch(id, item, window, event)
File "Wapplication.py", line 462, in dispatch
W.CallbackCall(callback, 0, id, item, window, event)
File "Wbase.py", line 684, in CallbackCall
return callback()
File "PackageManager.py", line 176, in domenu_openURL
self.opendoc(url)
File "PackageManager.py", line 150, in opendoc
PackageBrowser(url)
File "PackageManager.py", line 328, in __init__
messages = self.setuppimp(url)
File "PackageManager.py", line 251, in setuppimp
self.pimpdb.appendURL(url)
File "pimp.py", line 259, in appendURL
dict = plistlib.Plist.fromFile(fp)
File "plistlib.py", line 211, in fromFile
plist = p.parse(pathOrFile)
File "plistlib.py", line 302, in parse
parser.ParseFile(file)
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