The code I borrowed for installing Python if it is not found obviously is not working and it is hard for me to test it -- I have so much stuff installed in my Python directory it is not funny, and I don't have time to be uninstalling and reinstalling these dozens of packages to maintain this.

I will modify the installer to ask the user if they want the Csound Python features and warn them, that if they want the Python stuff, that they have to already have installed the correct version of Python. If not, they can go back and turn off the Python features, or abort the installation, install Python manually, and restart the installation.

Regards,
Mike

-----Original Message-----
>From: joachim heintz 
>Sent: Feb 8, 2008 4:31 PM
>To: csound@lists.bath.ac.uk
>Subject: [Csnd] Re: Re: (relative) newbie utility question
>
>I hope this, too. Yesterday one of my students installed Csound on  
>Windows. The same problems as Stuart reports: error messages on  
>python whatever she does (installing python yes/no, installer d/f).  
>Really a pity, and not good for Csound ...
>
>	joachim
>
>
>
>Am 08.02.2008 um 21:02 schrieb victor:
>
>> I thought this situation with Python DLLs had been sorted
>> in the 5.07 installer. I hope it gets fixed once and for all
>> in 5.08. It can't continue like that, it's just getting users
>> annoyed.
>>
>> Victor
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stuart McLean"  
>> 
>> To: 
>> Sent: Friday, February 08, 2008 5:39 PM
>> Subject: [Csnd] (relative) newbie utility question
>>
>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I am trying to create a file for use with the convolve opcode using
>>> the cvanal utility. My operating system is winXP. I use cvanal
>>> appropriately AFAICT. I get error messages popping up complaining  
>>> that
>>> "This application has failed to start because python25.dll was not
>>> found. Re-installing the application may fix the problem." If I have
>>> 2.4 installed, it complains that 2.5 is missing. If 2.5 is installed
>>> it is missing 2.4. I _do_ have PYTHONPATH set, and
>>> PATH set to find Python, so I am a little confused as to what is  
>>> going
>>> on here. This feels to me like a dumb question, but after plugging
>>> away at it I'm no clearer as to what might be the problem. Any
>>> pointers would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
>>>
>>> Stuart
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
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That sounds like a reasonable solution.

Rory.


Michael Gogins wrote:
> The code I borrowed for installing Python if it is not found obviously is not working and it is hard for me to test it -- I have so much stuff installed in my Python directory it is not funny, and I don't have time to be uninstalling and reinstalling these dozens of packages to maintain this.
> 
> I will modify the installer to ask the user if they want the Csound Python features and warn them, that if they want the Python stuff, that they have to already have installed the correct version of Python. If not, they can go back and turn off the Python features, or abort the installation, install Python manually, and restart the installation.
> 
> Regards,
> Mike
> 
> -----Original Message-----
>> From: joachim heintz 
>> Sent: Feb 8, 2008 4:31 PM
>> To: csound@lists.bath.ac.uk
>> Subject: [Csnd] Re: Re: (relative) newbie utility question
>>
>> I hope this, too. Yesterday one of my students installed Csound on  
>> Windows. The same problems as Stuart reports: error messages on  
>> python whatever she does (installing python yes/no, installer d/f).  
>> Really a pity, and not good for Csound ...
>>
>> 	joachim
>>
>>
>>
>> Am 08.02.2008 um 21:02 schrieb victor:
>>
>>> I thought this situation with Python DLLs had been sorted
>>> in the 5.07 installer. I hope it gets fixed once and for all
>>> in 5.08. It can't continue like that, it's just getting users
>>> annoyed.
>>>
>>> Victor
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stuart McLean"  
>>> 
>>> To: 
>>> Sent: Friday, February 08, 2008 5:39 PM
>>> Subject: [Csnd] (relative) newbie utility question
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi
>>>>
>>>> I am trying to create a file for use with the convolve opcode using
>>>> the cvanal utility. My operating system is winXP. I use cvanal
>>>> appropriately AFAICT. I get error messages popping up complaining  
>>>> that
>>>> "This application has failed to start because python25.dll was not
>>>> found. Re-installing the application may fix the problem." If I have
>>>> 2.4 installed, it complains that 2.5 is missing. If 2.5 is installed
>>>> it is missing 2.4. I _do_ have PYTHONPATH set, and
>>>> PATH set to find Python, so I am a little confused as to what is  
>>>> going
>>>> on here. This feels to me like a dumb question, but after plugging
>>>> away at it I'm no clearer as to what might be the problem. Any
>>>> pointers would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
>>>>
>>>> Stuart
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Send bugs reports to this list.
>>>> To unsubscribe, send email sympa@lists.bath.ac.uk with body  
>>>> "unsubscribe csound"
>>>
>>>
>>> Send bugs reports to this list.
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>>> "unsubscribe csound"
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>>
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Michael Gogins schreef:
> The code I borrowed for installing Python if it is not found obviously is not working and it is hard for me to test it -- I have so much stuff installed in my Python directory it is not funny, and I don't have time to be uninstalling and reinstalling these dozens of packages to maintain this.
>   

I once tested something like that by temporarily renaming the directory 
with the needed application, and see how my application reacted. That 
way you don't have to uninstall anything. I even did this in a script 
that afterwards renamed the directory to the original one. One annoyance 
was that the directory was write-protected, so the script had to run 
under the administrator account.

-- 
  Mark
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