Re: [Distutils] More Windows questions

2006-10-04 Thread Paul Moore
> >And some programs (4NT, for example) expect the App > >Path name to match the exe name (and give a broken user experience if > >that isn't true). > > Broken how? The command xxx runs program yyy. Paul. ___ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@pyt

Re: [Distutils] Draft of new setuptools installation instructions

2006-10-04 Thread Paul Moore
On 10/4/06, Phillip J. Eby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ah crap. I wonder if there's any way to tell whether you're the only > process on a particular console? That would fix this, I guess. There's a > GetConsoleProcessList() API, but it doesn't even work on Win2K as far as I > can tell; a minim

Re: [Distutils] More Windows questions

2006-10-04 Thread Phillip J. Eby
At 09:31 AM 10/4/2006 +0100, Paul Moore wrote: >On 10/4/06, Phillip J. Eby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Okay, I've looked at the registry a bit, and it seems like I can register >>App Paths either under HKLM (for the whole machine) or under HKCU (for the >>current user). However, both seem to have

Re: [Distutils] Python 2.4.3

2006-10-04 Thread John Machin
On 5/10/2006 5:05 AM, Radwan, Neveen wrote: > > Can you let me know if there is a way to install this application > silently on a system (ie. No dialog boxes) – are there any command line > switches I can use? > Hello, Neveen, This should answer your question: http://www.python.org/download

Re: [Distutils] Draft of new setuptools installation instructions

2006-10-04 Thread Phillip J. Eby
At 09:23 AM 10/4/2006 +0100, Paul Moore wrote: >On 10/4/06, Phillip J. Eby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>At 11:12 PM 10/3/2006 +0100, Paul Moore wrote: >> >Also, the automatic pause would annoy me. How would you make it *not* >> >happen if I ran the command from a console window I already had open?

Re: [Distutils] Draft of new setuptools installation instructions

2006-10-04 Thread Phillip J. Eby
At 06:48 AM 10/4/2006 -0400, Jim Fulton wrote: >Phillip J. Eby wrote: >>I'm working on new installation instructions for setuptools 0.6c4, which >>will no longer use ez_setup.py for end-user manual installation of >>setuptools (as opposed to bundled installation with another package). > >This see

Re: [Distutils] Transitioning a Python Library on a Shared Network Drive to eggs/setuptools

2006-10-04 Thread Phillip J. Eby
At 02:08 PM 10/4/2006 -0400, Alexander Michael wrote: >In the past I've managed a shared library of Python packages by using >distutils to install them in secondary Library and Scripts directories on >a shared network drive. This worked fine, even in our multi-platform >environment. With advent

[Distutils] Python 2.4.3

2006-10-04 Thread Radwan, Neveen
Hello,   Can you let me know if there is a way to install this application silently on a system (ie. No dialog boxes) – are there any command line switches I can use?   Thanks!   Neveen Radwan Neveen Radwan Client Engineering California Engineering Computing (CAEC) - Santa Cla

Re: [Distutils] Draft of new setuptools installation instructions

2006-10-04 Thread Chris Lambacher
On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 09:23:28AM +0100, Paul Moore wrote: > On 10/4/06, Phillip J. Eby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At 11:12 PM 10/3/2006 +0100, Paul Moore wrote: > > >Also, the automatic pause would annoy me. How would you make it *not* > > >happen if I ran the command from a console window I

[Distutils] setuptools: but with svn-tag-revision and uncommitted project

2006-10-04 Thread Ian Bicking
I get this exception when I run "python setup.py egg_info" with --tag-svn-revision and when the project has never been committed (and hence there's no committed-rev). I think it should instead give 0, or at least a good error message. (I don't see any problem with 0) Traceback (most recent ca

[Distutils] Transitioning a Python Library on a Shared Network Drive to eggs/setuptools

2006-10-04 Thread Alexander Michael
In the past I've managed a shared library of Python packages by using distutils to install them in secondary Library and Scripts directories on a shared network drive. This worked fine, even in our multi-platform environment. With advent of eggs, however, the secondary Library directory must be a f

Re: [Distutils] Draft of new setuptools installation instructions

2006-10-04 Thread Jorge Vargas
On 10/3/06, Phillip J. Eby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 10:43 PM 10/3/2006 +0100, Paul Moore wrote: > >On 10/3/06, Phillip J. Eby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Should we make more effort to create a usable command-line experience on > >>Windows? Perhaps use a post-install script to register ea

Re: [Distutils] Draft of new setuptools installation instructions

2006-10-04 Thread Jim Fulton
Jim Fulton wrote: ... > This will probably break buildout's bootstrapping script, which uses > ez_setup. I was too hasty in making this remark. The buildout bootstrap script, http://svn.zope.org/zc.buildout/trunk/bootstrap/bootstrap.py?view=markup Uses the use_setup function from ez_setup.p

Re: [Distutils] More Windows questions

2006-10-04 Thread Paul Moore
On 10/4/06, Phillip J. Eby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Okay, I've looked at the registry a bit, and it seems like I can register > App Paths either under HKLM (for the whole machine) or under HKCU (for the > current user). However, both seem to have issues. [...] > 2. Register HKCU "App Paths" en

Re: [Distutils] Draft of new setuptools installation instructions

2006-10-04 Thread Paul Moore
On 10/4/06, Phillip J. Eby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 11:12 PM 10/3/2006 +0100, Paul Moore wrote: > >Also, the automatic pause would annoy me. How would you make it *not* > >happen if I ran the command from a console window I already had open? > > The idea would be to register a separate "easy