[issue8928] wininst: could not create key

2010-06-06 Thread Tarek Ziadé
Tarek Ziadé added the comment: Please don't add messages in here just to list the projects that suffer from a bug in Python 2.4 or 2.5. This is just making us extra triage/read work for nothing, and doesn't really help. Your first report is enough so the error and its references are indexed b

[issue8928] wininst: could not create key

2010-06-06 Thread anatoly techtonik
anatoly techtonik added the comment: Python process is rigid, no surprises here. But this issue is nevertheless useful to link packages that experience this problem. I'll bump it every time I run into broken package. So far I use: 1. SCons 2. Trac --

[issue8928] wininst: could not create key

2010-06-06 Thread Tarek Ziadé
Tarek Ziadé added the comment: as I said in the other issue, there's no bug fix for 2.4 or 2.5 anymore, unless it's a security issue. So I am closing this issue. Also, your second message seems unrelated. If there's an issue with a dependency under 2.6, please open a distinct issue and explai

[issue8928] wininst: could not create key

2010-06-06 Thread anatoly techtonik
anatoly techtonik added the comment: There is some uncertainty that 2.6 package installers are dependent on msvcr90.dll - http://trac.edgewall.org/ticket/9404#comment:7 -- ___ Python tracker __

[issue8928] wininst: could not create key

2010-06-06 Thread anatoly techtonik
New submission from anatoly techtonik : Projects that still support Python 2.4 are building distributions with either 2.4.x or 2.5.x versions, because they afraid that newer installers won't run on Windows XP or Windows 2000. http://trac.edgewall.org/ticket/9404#comment:2 Unfortunately, these