[issue6792] Distutils-based installer does not detect 64bit versions of Python

Steve Dower added the comment: Distutils is now deprecated (see PEP 632) and all tagged issues are being closed. From now until removal, only release blocking issues will be considered for distutils. If this issue does not relate to distutils, please remove the component and reopen it. If y

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lissacoffey added the comment: This bug is a really annoying one, any chance it will be fixed in 2.7? It's really a matter when you want to deploy a program using distutils (my case), because you cannot really require your clients to edit the registry themselves :/ Thanks http://www.fixithere.

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Martin v. Löwis added the comment: Erik: the issue is about bdist_wininst, not bdist_msi (bdist_msi has a similar issue, but it is entirely different in its causes and potential resolution, and shall not be discussed here). The code to find the installations is in PC/bdist_wininst/install.c:G

[issue6792] Distutils-based installer does not detect 64bit versions of Python

Erik Purins added the comment: I would like to investigate this issue, but I need more information regarding the bug and the expected behavior. Is this specifically that an x64 windows python that generates a bdist (msi output) runs and can't find the x64 interpreter because of syswow registry

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Roy Jacobson added the comment: This bug is a really annoying one, any chance it will be fixed in 2.7? It's really a matter when you want to deploy a program using distutils (my case), because you cannot really require your clients to edit the registry themselves :/ Is there any problem with

[issue6792] Distutils-based installer does not detect 64bit versions of Python

Martin v. Löwis added the comment: > If priority escalation is out of the question It's not out of the question - it's just that setting the priority on the issue is not a proper way to escalate. Instead, there are two forms of escalation available: 1. submit a patch that fixes the issue 2. pa

[issue6792] Distutils-based installer does not detect 64bit versions of Python

Brian Curtin added the comment: Without a patch or a solution, the priority doesn't really matter (like Tarek said in msg127630). If anyone is actively working on this feel free to say otherwise, but I see no status to update. -- ___ Python tracker

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vr gamer added the comment: I'm not certain that I agree with the argument used to justify keeping this as a 'normal' priority issue. Apparently, since it doesn't effect the entire python community and being as there is no readily available solution, the decision is to treat it as a minor pro

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Tarek Ziadé added the comment: Yeah I agree. Until we get a solution + patch the priority here does not really matter. -- ___ Python tracker ___

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R. David Murray added the comment: I'll leave priority setting to tarek, but it doesn't look to me like raising the priority is going to make any difference, since it doesn't sound from reading the ticket like anyone has found a solution yet (other than offering 64bit installers). --

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Jérôme Radix added the comment: Could you please change the priority of this Issue to 'High' as this problem is a big annoyance for all Windows 64bits users which is a rather large niche of users (a niche getting larger and larger everyday), don't you think ? -- _

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Francis Cullen added the comment: There are many updated installers, for many libs for those of us using 64bit windows 7. http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/ -- nosy: +menek...@gmail.com ___ Python tracker

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dontbugme added the comment: you can add InstallPath key with the corresponding value at [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Python\PythonCore\2.6\] if you want disutils installer to detect your python That makes him detect and install the librarys or scripts to the right directory, but

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Éric Araujo added the comment: Removing 2.6 which only gets security fixes now. -- nosy: +eric.araujo versions: +Python 3.1 -Python 2.6 ___ Python tracker ___ ___

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Santoso Wijaya added the comment: Does anyone know of any workaround, for now? -- nosy: +santa4nt ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bu

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Martin v. Löwis added the comment: One issue to consider is pre/post-install actions. bdist_wininst loads pythonxy.dll from the target system, which would fail if it is a 32-bit installer process that tries to load a 64-bit python DLL. -- ___ Pytho

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Stephen White added the comment: 32bit apps can query the 64bit registry, using the appropriate security and access rights options such as KEY_WOW64_64KEY (0x0100). Similarly KEY_WOW64_32KEY can be used for 64bit apps to read/write the 32bit registry without having to have knowledge of how th

[issue6792] Distutils-based installer does not detect 64bit versions of Python

Phillip J. Eby added the comment: ISTM there may be two ways to fix this problem; one was to change the .exe header produced by bdist_wininst, but in retrospect, it can't fix this because it's likely Windows' 64-to-32 bit conversion (Wow6432Node) that's changing the registry path used, rather th

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sorin added the comment: It is possible to create combined x86 and x64 msi files and in fact it would be a good idea to have only one instead of two. -- nosy: +sorin ___ Python tracker _

[issue6792] Distutils-based installer does not detect 64bit versions of Python

Martin v. Löwis added the comment: Carwyn: those packages just need to create two versions of their installers - one for 32-bit Python, and one for 64-bit Python. Please report that to the respective packages. -- ___ Python tracker

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Carwyn Edwards added the comment: This prevents numerous packages from installing correctly including the current 0.6c11 version of setuptools. When the installer runs it reports that it can't find the version of python installed from python-2.6.4.amd64.msi. It seems to be looking for it in: [

[issue6792] Distutils-based installer does not detect 64bit versions of Python

Martin v. Löwis added the comment: Unfortunately, I don't think this is possible. When creating the installer, you have to make a choice whether to make it a 32-bit or a 64-bit MSI file - whether or not you have any architecture dependency. At least, can't think of an easy way to solve it. ---

[issue6792] Distutils-based installer does not detect 64bit versions of Python

New submission from erluk : An installer for source-only modules created using distutils (bdist_wininst) will only detect 32bit installations of Python on 64bit Windows machines. Expected behaviour: The installer lists 32bit and 64bit installations of Python on the machine. -- assignee: