On 05/04/2016 16:56, Igor Korot wrote:
Hi, python community,
Recently there was a huge number of e-mail stating that the python
installer does not work.
When asked about it, people reveal that they wee using Windows and
they were getting
errors about missing DLL.
I know for a fact that in the InstallShield it is possible to detect
the OS you are trying
to install on.
So, here is my request: if its not possible to include the DLL in
question in the installer,
can the installer check for the OS version and ask the user to go to
Microsoft.com,
download and install the library?
It looks like people don't want to use their common sense and just
wanted to waste
everybody's time by asking what went wrong instead of just download
the dll executable
from MS site and install it.
Can something like this be done to eliminate those questions in the
future and let people
concentrate on the real python issues?
Thank you.
I fail to see why anybody in the Python community should put themselves
out to answer a question for someone who is too bone idle to do any
research in the first place, especially when the question has been asked
and answered repeatadly over a period of months. For those who
disagree, they can provide the patches, or the edits to a wiki as
appropriate.
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