Bugs item #1465834, was opened at 2006-04-06 18:40 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by theller You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=1465834&group_id=5470
Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: Distutils Group: Python 2.5 Status: Open Resolution: None >Priority: 7 Submitted By: Paul Moore (pmoore) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: bdist_wininst preinstall script support is broken in 2.5a1 Initial Comment: The attached zip file contains a trivial module. Run "run_setup.bat" to create a bdist_wininst installer (you'll need to edit it to make the preinstall script path match where you unzipped the file). The resulting installer fails with an error "Running the pre-installation script failed". ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Thomas Heller (theller) Date: 2006-04-11 19:19 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=11105 These apis are now macros, they were exported functions in Python 2.4: PyParser_SimpleParseFile PyParser_SimpleParseString PyRun_AnyFile PyRun_AnyFileEx PyRun_AnyFileFlags PyRun_File PyRun_FileEx PyRun_FileFlags PyRun_InteractiveLoop PyRun_InteractiveOne PyRun_SimpleFile PyRun_SimpleFileEx PyRun_SimpleString PyRun_String Py_CompileString All of them, to be safe, should probably exposed as exported functions again. See also this thread on python-dev: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-January/059374.html Raising the priority to 7 because this must be fixed before release. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Paul Moore (pmoore) Date: 2006-04-06 22:01 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=113328 Seems to be limited to installers with preinstall scripts, as far as I can tell. The main example is pywin32, which is irritatingly significant :-) (One oddness I couldn't check is that scripts don't seem to get compiled any more - don't know if this is related to the same issue. It's not a big deal either way, though). The fix sounds reasonable. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Thomas Heller (theller) Date: 2006-04-06 20:22 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=11105 bdist_wininst7.1.exe uses runtime dynamic linking to the python dll. Python25.dll doesn't export a PyRun_SimpleString function anymore, it has been replaced by a macro: #define PyRun_SimpleString(s) PyRun_SimpleStringFlags(s, NULL) bdist_wininst *could* be changed to use PyRun_SimpleStringFlags instead, however, installers built with previous versions of Python will then refuse to install pure distributions to Python 2.5. I have not checked if installers that do *not* have a pre-install script will work or not. I suggest to make PyRun_SimpleString an exported function again - this should be cheap. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=1465834&group_id=5470 _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
