[pygtk] ANNOUNCE: Gazpacho 0.6.6

[Jarek Zgoda]

Johan Dahlin napisał(a):

>>Did anyone of packagers actually try to install it on Windows? The
>>installer does not install most of "share" directory contents. Also, the
>>program does not know how to behave on Windows machines and treats c:\
>>as home directory, which is wrong on all but Windows 98 and earlier in
>>this series.
> 
> I did some basic testing and it seemed to work.
> 
> However, I'm not very familiar with windows, I know there are a couple of
> areas where it needs to be improved.
> 
> Patches are welcome.

I'd work on a patch if the program would be usable on Windows (i.e. I
could run it on my Windows machine at all). Now it has no use for me on
this system, as the installer is broken and I am not a distutils expert.
I'll try to install with usual "python setup.py install" and if it
succeeds, I'll try to tweak distutils script to build valid Windows
installer.

As for improper handling of user's home directory, it's a known Python
deficiency, as on Windows there is no notion of one directory for all
user files: it may be %USERPROFILE%, %USERAPPDATA%, %HOMEDRIVE% +
%HOMEPATH% or any combination of the above entries, depending on admin's
taste. By default, only %USERPROFILE% is defined on NT and following
(W2k, XP, 2003) but administrators may choose to use different layout,
including defining %HOME%. Python fails to recognize %USERPROFILE% as
$HOME equivalent, so it's a matter of writing a hack (see i.e. in Gajim
code).

Sorry for off-list posting of my previous msg, as usual I hit "Reply",
not "Reply To All". These mailing list software is make me sick.

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Jarek Zgoda
http://jpa.berlios.de/