"relative paths" option is enabled, 8.1 rewrites *every* path to be
relative to PCbuild (the dir containing the .wse script), even absolute
paths you type in by hand, paths to the Wise installation itself, and even
paths to the Windows directories (sheesh). Only way to stop it is to
start a path with a variable reference, and we screwed ourselves before
by not using the predefined %_WISE_% vrbl to point to the Wise
installation. Repaired that old, repeated and well-hidden mistake.
Also:
+ Got rid of the %_SRC_% vrbl (such paths always relative to PCBuild now).
+ Changed the %_DOC_% vrbl to prompt for the location of the unzipped
HTML files (defaults to ..\html, cuz that's where I put them, but I
expect I'll change that later cuz I always hated mixing the generated
docs into the CVS tree ... Guido, if you're reading this, where did you
unpack the docs when building a Windows installer? Happy to oblige.).
+ Stopped the generated installer from filling up the entire screen (got
rid of the massive blue background gradient -- new option).
+ Added the helpful app publisher and app URL registry entries that Win2K
displays in its version of Add/Remove.
the old script without any complaints, didn't demand any manual changes,
and built a working installer from it that acts very much like the old one.
It did add a few script items, and changed one, so checking it in now
before I break everything again.
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).
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.
project. [However I didn't add the other changes in his patch, which
were just taking away the source code control stuff -- this doesn't
hurt and would come back as soon as I make another change. --GvR]
* Temp directory for all projects are now specific to the project
(rather than common as before). This avoids any conflicts with
debug symbols or common file names etc.
NOTE: You should manually delete your existing build directory after
applying this patch, as the MSVC "clean" command will now only clean
the new temporary directories - not the existing common temp
directory.
* Base address for all extension modules updated. PC\dllbase_nt.txt
also updated. Erroneous "libpath" directory removed for all
projects.
* winsound module moved from a builtin module to an extension
module. This was done primarily to avoid Python16.dll needing to
pull in winmm.dll. Really dumb test added for winsound - but if
nothing else it ensures the module imports.
reduce the size of python16.dll to almost its 1.5.2 size, and remove
dependencies on winsock unless sockets are actually used.
Note that soundex is simply no longer supported.
Added the bitmaps back, and added the wizard style program group
selection dialog.
Got rid of references to backup etc. inserted by the installer wizard
-- we don't use these.
Got rid of conditionals for Windows 3.1, ditto.
Changed version to 1.6a2.
Changed default install directory to "C:\Python16" (not really, but close).
Install only one copy of python16.lib.
Install the two MS DLLs (versioned) and python16.dll (unversioned) in
the system directory.
Install Tcl/Tk and expat in the DLLs directory.
Install zlib.dll in DLLs instead of windows32 system directory.
Install freeze, webchecker and versioncheck tools.
Add Content type: text/plain registry keys for .py, .pyw.
Add file type .pyo (same as .pyc).
Tim Peters
Martin v. Löwis
Guido van Rossum
Thomas Wouters
Mark Hammond
Trent Mick
Jeremy Hylton
Fred Drake
Marc-André Lemburg