On 25/03/2009 11:41 PM, John Machin wrote:
This all sounds good. I presume that "this version of distutils" means the 2.6.2/3.1 version.
Yep.
In the meantime, until 2.6.2 final is released, is my suggestion of using Python 2.5 to build installers reasonable?
Yep.
Is there a better approach?
Not that I'm aware of - hence the fixing of the installer to avoid the crt completely.
BTW, the user with the problem has not only confirmed that he did indeed receive the misspelled German version of the error message :-) but also has successfully installed the package using a 2.5-built installer that I provided. It's curious that out of over 250 downloads of the 2.6-built installer, there's been only 1 report of the installer not working.
IIRC, the installer would work OK if a 'public' or shared copy of the vc runtime was installed - but it would seem unusual that 249 out of 250 people would have that...
Cheers, Mark -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
