On Thursday 02 September 2010 05:44:40 Dimitri Linten wrote:
> Dear Hugo,
> 
> A standard Pythonxy installation  resulted in the following entry to the
> Windows registry
> 
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Python\PythonCore\2.6\InstallPath

This is because you installed Pythonxy just for your user not for all users. 
Anyway it's a bug in the installer, it should also search for Python 
installation in the current user.

I filed a bug about this issue:

http://bugs.openbossa.org/show_bug.cgi?id=340

> so not in the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE ( Personally I am not familier with these
> windows registry entries)
> 
> I took the liberty to add Pierre Raybaut in cc , as he is the maintainer of
> the PythonXY distribution (www.pythonxy.com) and that I believe that PySide
> for windows will be an extremely important  add-on to his distribution.

Nice :-)
 
> Kind Regards,
> 
> Dimitri
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Hugo Parente Lima
> 
> <[email protected]>wrote:
> > On Wednesday 01 September 2010 05:19:08 Dimitri Linten wrote:
> > > Hi PySide,
> > > 
> > > For some reason the installer can not detect my python 2.6 installation
> > > (C:\Python26)
> > > 
> > > I'm running python  2.6.5.1 from the Pythonxy distribution.
> > 
> > The installer detects python using the registry entry found in
> > 
> > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Python\PythonCore\<PYTHON_VERSION>\InstallPat
> > h
> > 
> > Probably the Pythonxy doesn't add this entry to the Windows registry,
> > could you check it for me?
> > 
> > There are two solution for this problem:
> > 
> > - Add a better code for Python detection in the installer
> > - Provide a zip file with the contents of the installer and a README file
> > telling you where to put each file.
> > 
> > I'll pick the second choice because it also solve the problem for people
> > whom
> > compiled Python by their own, besides people like you whom uses
> > "alternative"
> > Python distributions.
> > 
> > Other suggestions or patches for the installer are welcome. =]
> > 
> > > regards,
> > > 
> > > Dimitri
> > 
> > --
> > Hugo Parente Lima
> > INdT - Instituto Nokia de Tecnologia

-- 
Hugo Parente Lima
INdT - Instituto Nokia de Tecnologia

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