[issue8908] friendly errors for UAC errors in windows installers

2010-06-05 Thread anatoly techtonik
anatoly techtonik added the comment: A proper user error message requires investigation of behavior on anonymous samba shares. Attaching patch to install.c with backlinks to relevant ticket descriptions. -- keywords: +patch Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file17564/8908.windows.ua

[issue8908] friendly errors for UAC errors in windows installers

2010-06-05 Thread anatoly techtonik
New submission from anatoly techtonik : The problem investigated in issue8870 detected that bdist_wininst installers fail in Vista and Windows 7 with enabled UAC (user access control) when run from local drives with non-MS file systems and from network drives. The error message returned in thi