As the bug report notes, the Windows installer creates a useless pydoc
file in the base directory. Changed the installer to rename it pydoc.pyw
instead.
This involves changing the zlib build process to build zlib itself from sources, then use that library. Also updated are the comments to reflect the new official home of zlib, and add Windows specific notes regarding the build process.
between passes: Win9x DOS boxes are limited to 50 lines max, and the result
of the first pass scrolls off irretrievably otherwise. Also simplified
the goto-laden logic a bit.
+ Bump the build number.
+ Changed app name in installer dialogs.
+ Fiddled dialogs to repair grammar and get rid of anachronisms (e.g.,
"ProgMan" and "Program Manager" haven't made sense since Windows 3.1!).
subset of Win32 ShellExecute's functionality. Guido wants this because
IDLE's Help -> Docs function currently crashes his machine because of a
conflict between his version of Norton AntiVirus (6.10.20) and MS's
_popen. Docs for startfile are being mailed to Fred (or just read the
docstring -- it tells the whole story).
Changed webbrowser.py to use os.startfile instead of os.popen on Windows.
Changed IDLE's EditorWindow.py to pass an absolute path for the docs
(hardcoding ShellExecute's "directory" arg to "." as used to be done let
IDLE work, but made the startfile command exceedingly obscure for other
uses -- the MS docs are terrible, of course, & still not sure I
understand it).
Note that Windows Python must link with shell32.lib now! That's where
ShellExecute lives.
pythonw.exe we just installed. Making Windows key off the .pyw extension
instead screws people with multiple Python installations (reported more
than once on c.l.py).
.exe that will show up on PythonLabs.com later today:
Include the Lib\xml\ package (directory + subdirectories).
Include the Lib\lib-old\ directory.
Include the Lib\test\*.xml test cases (well, just one now).
Remove the redundant install of Lib\*.py (looks like a stray duplicate
line that's been there a long time). Because of this, the new
installer is a little smaller despite having more stuff in it.
waste an hour tracking down an illusion; repaired it; writing/reading non-
printable characters (except \t\r\n) into/outof text-mode files ain't
defined x-platform, and at least some Windows text editors do surprising
things in their presence.
Also added a by-hand "build humber" to the Windows build, in an approximation
of Python's inexplicable BUILD-number Unix scheme. I'll try to remember to
increment it each time I make a Windows installer available. It's starting
at 2, cuz I've put 2 installers out so far (both with BUILD #0).
very late in the process when running on Windows 2000 without admim
privs. Rearranged so that the admin check is done at the start
instead. Added words to the end of the blurb to make it very clear
how to abort the install (wasn't obvious to me that "Cancel" was
the right thing to click).
Tim Peters
Guido van Rossum
Thomas Wouters
Mark Hammond