[tahoe-dev] [tahoe-lafs] #773: document installation on Windows
James A. Donald
jamesd at echeque.com
Tue Aug 18 14:57:32 PDT 2009
David-Sarah Hopwood wrote:
> tahoe-lafs wrote:
>> #773: document installation on Windows
>
> I succeeded in installing on Vista using the InstallDetails instructions
> for Python 2.6 (native using MinGW, not cygwin). There is a bug in the
> instructions -- in step 2 of "What if that doesn't work?",
>
> C:\Python26\Libs\distutils
>
> should be
>
> C:\Python26\lib\distutils
>
>
> Minor nits:
> - even though most people will probably work it out, there should be
> a note that C:\Python26 is only the default Python installation
> directory.
Almost all installations of python based software on windows suck. This
is a readily fixable problem, but it has not been fixed - it could be
viewed as missing part of the python toolset. We need a tool that
produces good msi installs of python software.
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