Re: [Python-Dev] Buildbots for 2.6 and 3.0

2009-02-16 Thread Jim Kleckner
Martin v. Löwis wrote: Looking at http://www.python.org/dev/buildbot/, we are still missing buildbots for the release26-maint and release30-maint branches. Is someone working on that? Yes. I won't enable 2.6 build slaves until 2.5.3 is released, but will afterwards. How does one actually dow

[Python-Dev] 2.6.2 Vista installer failure on upgrade from 2.6.1

2009-04-27 Thread Jim Kleckner
I went to upgrade a Vista machine from 2.6.1 to 2.6.2 and got error 2755 with the message "system cannot open the device or file". I uninstalled 2.6.1, removing all residual files also, and got the error message again. When I ran msiexec as follows to get a log, it magically worked: msiexec

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-3000] RELEASED Python 2.6a1 and 3.0a3

2008-03-06 Thread Jim Kleckner
Martin v. Löwis wrote: >> Thanks for fixing these Martin! > > I have now also uploaded signed MSI files for 3.0a3. > > I have not tested them on a machine which doesn't have the > VS 2008 CRT installed (as all the machines I can access > right now do have it); please report what works and what >

Re: [Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 2.6a1 and 3.0a3

2008-03-06 Thread Jim Kleckner
Jim Kleckner wrote: > Martin v. Löwis wrote: >>> Thanks for fixing these Martin! >> I have now also uploaded signed MSI files for 3.0a3. >> >> I have not tested them on a machine which doesn't have the >> VS 2008 CRT installed (as all the machines I ca

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-3000] RELEASED Python 2.6a1 and 3.0a3

2008-03-06 Thread Jim Kleckner
Martin v. Löwis wrote: >> When I install 2.6a1 onto a Windoze machine without any previous >> install, I get a dialog: >> There is a problem with this Windows Installer package. >> A program run as part of the setup did not finish as expected. >> Contact your support personnel or package ven

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-3000] RELEASED Python 2.6a1 and 3.0a3

2008-03-07 Thread Jim Kleckner
Martin v. Löwis wrote: > Please compress it, and make a bug report on > bugs.python.org. Submitted as: http://bugs.python.org/issue2256 ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe:

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] RELEASED Python 2.6a3 and 3.0a5

2008-05-09 Thread Jim Kleckner
Barry Warsaw wrote: ... For more information and downloadable distributions, see the Python 2.6 website: http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.6/ The .msi for 2.6a3 seems to be missing from: http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.6/ and the download link from this page gives a 404: http:/

[Python-Dev] Visual Studio 2008 compiler option EHsc ?

2008-05-15 Thread Jim Kleckner
In building a package with several platforms, I ran across the warning message below from Visual Studio 2008. Should we add the /EHsc option to the compile_options in distutils for MSVC? Or is it more complex than that... This link describes the warning: http://tinyurl.com/4fmjue http://msdn.

Re: [Python-Dev] Visual Studio 2008 compiler option EHsc ?

2008-05-16 Thread Jim Kleckner
Martin v. Löwis wrote: In building a package with several platforms, I ran across the warning message below from Visual Studio 2008. Should we add the /EHsc option to the compile_options in distutils for MSVC? Or is it more complex than that... Who is "we"? If you have a module that uses C++

[Python-Dev] Status of mingw and Python 2.6 ?

2008-07-25 Thread Jim Kleckner
I gave it a try with cygwin-hosted mingw just to see if that would work as an alternative to VS2008/VC9 to figure out some linkage problems. I tried: python setup.py build_ext --compiler mingw32 and got a version string issue noted below which rejects the version string printed from the loader