Re: [Python-Dev] Installing Python 2.6 alpha1 on Windows XP

2008-03-19 Thread Jim Kleckner
Martin v. Löwis wrote: >> That's odd. In theory, having msvcr90.dll in C:\Python26 should be >> sufficient, as once python.exe is loaded, its directory is added to >> the DLL search path. Maybe it's something to do with the "side by side >> manifest installation" stuff (or whatever it's called). >

Re: [Python-Dev] Installing Python 2.6 alpha1 on Windows XP

2008-03-18 Thread Christian Heimes
> That shouldn't be hard - I'll set up a Windows virtual machine with no > additional software on it and can use that for testing. If you want me > to try anything out, let me know and I can do so in a guaranteed clean > environment. I think I've a spare license of XP Home around somewhere. I'm g

Re: [Python-Dev] Installing Python 2.6 alpha1 on Windows XP

2008-03-18 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> That shouldn't be hard - I'll set up a Windows virtual machine with no > additional software on it and can use that for testing. If you want me > to try anything out, let me know and I can do so in a guaranteed clean > environment. That should be a reasonable setup. Try moving the manifest files

Re: [Python-Dev] Installing Python 2.6 alpha1 on Windows XP

2008-03-18 Thread Paul Moore
On 18/03/2008, "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Martin, can you comment? It looks like the 3.0 installer uses 2 copies > > of msvcr90.dll, where the 2.6 one doesn't. I would have thought that > > only one is necessary, but Gregor's experiments seem to demonstrate > > otherwise. > >

Re: [Python-Dev] Installing Python 2.6 alpha1 on Windows XP

2008-03-18 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> We are still having problems to integrate the MS Merge module into our > MSI. Martin is working on the problem. In the mean time you can work > around the problem by installing the MSVCRT 9.0 Redist. While this is a work-around for the people trying to run the alpha releases, it effectively pr

Re: [Python-Dev] Installing Python 2.6 alpha1 on Windows XP

2008-03-18 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> That's odd. In theory, having msvcr90.dll in C:\Python26 should be > sufficient, as once python.exe is loaded, its directory is added to > the DLL search path. Maybe it's something to do with the "side by side > manifest installation" stuff (or whatever it's called). Yes, with VS 2008, the DLL s

Re: [Python-Dev] Installing Python 2.6 alpha1 on Windows XP

2008-03-18 Thread Christian Heimes
Paul Moore schrieb: > That's odd. In theory, having msvcr90.dll in C:\Python26 should be > sufficient, as once python.exe is loaded, its directory is added to > the DLL search path. Maybe it's something to do with the "side by side > manifest installation" stuff (or whatever it's called). > > Mart

Re: [Python-Dev] Installing Python 2.6 alpha1 on Windows XP

2008-03-18 Thread Paul Moore
On 17/03/2008, Gregor Lingl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Another thought - do you have any copies of msvcr90.dll on your PATH? > > I don't think it'll make a difference, but if you do can you try > > renaming them? > > > > > No I don't! Only in c:\Python26, in c:\Python30 and on c:\Python30\DLLs.

Re: [Python-Dev] Installing Python 2.6 alpha1 on Windows XP

2008-03-17 Thread Gregor Lingl
Paul Moore schrieb: > On 17/03/2008, Gregor Lingl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> When doing the same call to execute idle as you, I got the following: >> >> Traceback (most recent call last): >> File "c:\Python26\Lib\idlelib\idle.py", line 6, in >> import PyShell >> File "c:\Python26\Li

Re: [Python-Dev] Installing Python 2.6 alpha1 on Windows XP

2008-03-17 Thread Paul Moore
On 17/03/2008, Gregor Lingl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When doing the same call to execute idle as you, I got the following: > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "c:\Python26\Lib\idlelib\idle.py", line 6, in > import PyShell > File "c:\Python26\Lib\idlelib\PyShell.py", line 9,

[Python-Dev] Installing Python 2.6 alpha1 on Windows XP

2008-03-17 Thread Gregor Lingl
Hi Paul, thanks for you efforts, but up to now it still didn't work. I'm using Windows XP Professional (32 bit). I tried an install on two different machines with the same negative result. I proceeded like you suggested. - I installed for all users, - I disabled the register extensions When doi