[wxPython-dev] Eggs for Christmas

[Robin Dunn]

I've uploaded a couple more eggs for testing.  See 
http://alldunn.com/wxPython/stuff/.  These have the message catalog 
files included, and a few other things tweaked and rearranged a little.

Robin Dunn wrote:
> Known Problems:
[...]
> * On Windows being self-contained means that a few things we usually 
> install outside of the package dir are missing, mainly the .manifest 
> files for python.exe and pythonw.exe.  If easy_install supported some 
> sort of post-install script then I could easily take care of it there, 
> but it doesn't look like it does. :-(  Does anybody have any ideas about 
> how to work around this?
> 
> * On Windows easy_install creates a stub .exe loader for the "entry 
> points" it installs to the Scripts dir.  Those that I've marked as gui 
> scripts (pycrust, xrced, etc.) are not working for some reason.  They 
> just exit without launching the application.  I think it's a bug in the 
> launcher exe provided by setuptools, but I haven't dug into it yet. 
> Since these launchers are created during the install phase it will 
> likely take a new version of setuptools to be able to fix it.

These problems are still there, but I've let PJE know about them, and 
have submitted a patch for the launcher executable bug, so hopefully 
they'll be solved on the setuptools side of the fence soon.

-- 
Robin Dunn
Software Craftsman
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