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).
much more explicit. Also document that we're moving to Tcl/Tk 8.3.2.
Simplify .dsp files by getting rid of useless include paths.
.wse file changed to reflect that my setup is different than Guido's:
if you *build* a Python distro using python20.wse, beware!
that these files are treated as normal text files (which they are). However,
the files also had to be changed to be stored in CVS internally with UNIX line
terminators (they had DOS line terminators internally before this commit).
NOTE: All these projects had messed-up line endings (but MSVC didnt mind). Executing a diff with "--ignore-all-space" will show the specific changes, but I made a complete checkin with correct line endiings as it is the correct thing to do!
what the dozen+ subprojects are for, which are and aren't
expected to build out of the box, and what else is needed to get
them all to build. Also explained that Alpha configurations
don't refer to pre-beta, but to the Alpha processor! That's
baffled me for years <0.7 wink>.
- The Tcl minor version should be 3 -- we're now using 8.3.1.
- Remove the version number from yet another Tcl source file.
Note that Tcl should be installed in C:\src\tcl for this to work.
Tim Peters
Guido van Rossum
Mark Hammond
Trent Mick
Jeremy Hylton
Fred Drake
Marc-André Lemburg