The old project files move to PC/VS9.0 and remain supported.
VS2008 is still required to build 2.7; VS2010 (or later, plus Windows SDK 7.1)
is *also* required to use the new project files.
for Python 2.4 caused a segfault when post_install_script was used.
The reason was that the file handle passed to PyRun_SimpleFile() was
created with MSVCRT.DLL, but Python 2.4 uses MSVCR71.DLL.
So, I replaced PyRun_SimpleFile() with PyRun_SimpleString(). The
segfault is gone, but the output of the postinstall script doesn't
show up, because still freopen() from MSVCRT is used.
Already backported.
Python was installed with the 'only for me' option. The registry key
had a hardcoded '2.3' in it where the python version chosen for
installation should be used instead.
Will backport myself.
to address bugs:
[ 555812 ] installing extension w/o admin rights
[ 555810 ] removing extensions without admin rights
* When enumerating the Python versions found, also remember the HKEY
they were found under.
* When installing, if Python was installed under HKCU, we will too.
If Python was installed under HKLM, we check the permissions of
the current user, and install where we can.
* The "root" key we use is a global variable - all registry setting and
delete functions use this global rather than a hardcoded HKLM.
* A new entry is written to the install log, indicating the key we used.
Uninstallation is based on this key.
* 'tempnam()' is used rather than 'tmpnam()' - 'tmpnam' creates a temp
file on the root of the current drive, and if this is readonly would
explain the 'freopen' errors occasionally reported. 'tempnam'
creates the temp file in the %TEMP% directory.
it from the install directory (as reported by the registry) in case it
is not found on the default Loadlibrary search path.
Fixes SF 935091: bdist_winist post-install script fails on non-admin Python
Already backported.
by bdist_wininst *must* use the same runtime libary as the Python
version.
Actually this means the Python version where the installer is run, not
the one which is used to build it. Must think about that - for now I
assume MSVC6 is used up to Python 2.3, and MSVC7.1 is used starting at
Python 2.4.
So the filename for wininst.exe is now wininst-6.exe for the Release
version and wininst-6_d.exe for the Debug version, when built with
MSVC6.
install.c: support for a 'pre-install-script', run before anything has
been installed. Provides a 'message_box' module function for use by
either the pre-install or post-install scripts.
bdist_wininst.py: support for pre-install script. Typo (build->built),
fixes so that --target-version can still work, even when the
distribution has extension modules - in this case, we insist on
--skip-build, as we still can't actually build other versions.
Changed the MSVC project file to create the exe in the
lib/distutils/command directory, bdist_wininst.py must still be
changed to use it.
Also changed to use the same zlib as the zlib module - this has the nice
sideeffect that now the buggy 1.1.3 version is no longer used.
Most of the source files now conform to PEP 7, except for the maximum
line length. Windows api programming in 78 character lines =:(.
README.txt is a new file, but still empty except for placeholders.
Zachary Ware
Serhiy Storchaka
Benjamin Peterson
Ezio Melotti
Martin v. Löwis
Georg Brandl
Antoine Pitrou
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc
Mark Hammond
Tim Peters
Thomas Heller