MSI Installer Problem: can't install 2.4a2 on new install of Win2kSP2

David Bolen db3l at fitlinxx.com
Tue Aug 31 12:43:11 EDT 2004


"Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> writes:

> b) if there is no \, python.exe must be on the PATH. So we look there,
>     and find one in C:\python23, and believe this is us. This logic is
>     flawed, as we should *first* look into the current directory (I
>     think)

You'd probably need to conditionalize the use of the current directory
on Windows, since on *nix, the current directory isn't automatically
searched.  Maybe the current implementation represents a bit of *nix
heritage.

-- David



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