Installation problem on Windows 98

[Thomas Heller]

kbk at shore.net (Kurt B. Kaiser) writes:

> kent at cpttm.org.mo (Kent Tong) writes:
>
>> I've installed Python 2.3 using the Windows installer downloaded
>> from www.python.org. I'm using Win98. The installation process went
>> well without any problem.  However, double-clicking the "IDLE
>> (Python GUI)" does nothing. The cursor changes to a hour-glass for
>> about 1 second and then nothing happens. The "Python (command line)"
>> works.
>
> The current Python CVS has improvements which make it easier to track
> down problems when IDLE is having trouble setting itself up.  One
> improvement is to have Tk post a dialog describing the error, another
> is better error messages.  (These changes were also added to the
> IDLEfork CVS.)

It is getting off-topic, but I still believe that pythonw.exe should be
improved to show errors in a console window which opens as soon as the
first output is written to sys.stderr (and sys.stdout also, maybe).

There is no chance otherwise to complain that tcl/tk can not be found,
for example.

And that reminds me: we had the case that a Ruby installation, which
sets some tcl/tk enviroment variables.  Removing the Ruby installation
did help in that case.

Thomas