Edward K. Ream wrote:
Problems with the windows installer persist.
The 'make' button in dist.leo creates the installer's exe with a
pretty gross hack: appending the .zip file to an already-existing .exe
file. I don't know whether this hack contributes to the problems
users are having.
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 4:45 PM, James A. Donald jam...@echeque.com wrote:
Indeed, I was so disgusted by the leo installer for windows that I
intended to do this, but somehow have not got around to doing it
partly because to make a solution compatible with leo's license,
I would have to
On Jun 17, 9:04 pm, David Szent-Györgyi das...@gmail.com wrote:
I gather that the installers for Leo 4.5 and Leo 4.6 are written in
Python instead, and that they use the Python-standard tools.
See the code in @button make in dist.leo.
It's python, but does not use distutils.
I gather
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Edward K. Reamedream...@gmail.com wrote:
The modified installer also checks to make sure that it does not break
in various ways.
I'll be happy to look at the installer script, but it's not clear that
we will ever go back to using nsis. I would prefer to
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Ville M. Vainio vivai...@gmail.com wrote:
FWIW, I (briefly) tried setup.py bdist_wininst with bad results.
setup.py is most useful right now for direct leo installation from
source (setup.py install) or debian packaging.
Since nobody is actively supporting
Problems with the windows installer persist.
The 'make' button in dist.leo creates the installer's exe with a
pretty gross hack: appending the .zip file to an already-existing .exe
file. I don't know whether this hack contributes to the problems
users are having. The hack uses the Python 2.5
On Jun 17, 10:07 am, Edward K. Ream edream...@gmail.com wrote:
Problems with the windows installer persist.
The 'make' button in dist.leo creates the installer's exe with a
pretty gross hack: appending the .zip file to an already-existing .exe
file. I don't know whether this hack
Google Groups hiccuped, and may have devoured my reply. Just in case,
I am re-writing it.
On Jun 17, 10:07 am, Edward K. Ream edream...@gmail.com wrote:
I do know that these installer problems are tiresome, and they often
create more trouble for users than the installer is worth. I also
know
On Jun 17, 10:07 am, Edward K. Ream edream...@gmail.com wrote:
I do know that these installer problems are tiresome, and they often
create more trouble for users than the installer is worth. I also
know that I'm not qualified to fix installer problems.
Anyone have any idea what to do about
