[Pythonmac-SIG] For your eyes only: new 2.3rc1+ installer

[Chris Lee]

On Thursday, July 24, 2003, at 10:02  AM, Jack Jansen wrote:

>
> On woensdag, jul 23, 2003, at 23:00 Europe/Amsterdam, Chris Lee wrote:
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>> You probably already know this but the package manager doesn't manage  
>> to get through firewalls.
>
> No, I didn't know this! Code was added before 2.3b1 to make it go  
> through firewalls (basically using urllib2 in stead of urllib, which  
> should be firewall-aware. This definitely needs to be fixed, or at the  
> very least warned about.
>
> What are the symptoms you see?

The error message is "Cannot open  
http://www.python.org/packman/version-0.3/darwin-6.6- 
Power_Macintosh.plist: <urlopen error (60, 'Operation times out')>"

It appears that the help page turns up now so that is good.  The fire  
wall is one that requires authentications and for what it is worth I  
have never managed to fink to work with it either (this doesn't mean a  
lot though since I am not really a power user and could quite easily be  
getting things wrong).

>
> And, for the rest of the crowd here: is anyone having success using PM  
> behind a firewall? Was there anything special you needed to do?
>
>>   Also in my install the help pages come up blank.
>
> This also is news to me. There is one thing you need to do (which is  
> obscurely mentioned in the installer welcome message): you need to  
> start the IDE once so it can register the help book.

That fixed it.  Teach me for skim reading won't it
>
> Does the "MacPython Help" show up in your Help Viewer bookshelf?
Does now :)

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