[Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 2.4.1, release candidate 1

[Richie Hindle]

[Martin]
> I'd like to encourage feedback on whether the Windows installer works
> for people.

[Me]
> It worked fine for me, upgrading from 2.4 on XPsp2.

Gah!  I didn't mean to send that.  It *didn't* work, as it turns out.  It
didn't overwrite python24.dll.  It's possible that there was a process
running at the time that was using python24.dll (I have a bunch of
scheduled jobs that run in the background), but the installer didn't say
anything about being unable to write the file.

I could try again, but maybe there's some useful information you can get
from the partially upgraded environment.  Here's how the \python24
directory looks:

C:\Python24>dir /od
 Volume in drive C has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is E031-65A3

 Directory of C:\Python24

26/11/1997  06:14               766 py.ico
11/04/2002  06:40               766 pyc.ico
24/03/2003  22:33               633 python.exe.manifest
24/03/2003  22:33               633 pythonw.exe.manifest
03/11/2004  15:37            13,499 LICENSE.txt
09/11/2004  16:27            61,440 Removepywin32.exe
09/11/2004  16:28            99,601 pywin32-wininst.log
30/11/2004  11:49         1,867,776 python24.dll
21/01/2005  14:21            20,992 Removeelementtree.exe
21/01/2005  14:21             3,191 elementtree-wininst.log
31/01/2005  14:46            61,440 Removectypes.exe
31/01/2005  14:46            25,371 ctypes-wininst.log
15/02/2005  14:30            61,440 Removepy2exe.exe
15/02/2005  14:30    <DIR>          Scripts
15/02/2005  14:30             5,621 py2exe-wininst.log
18/02/2005  16:59            50,963 README.txt
10/03/2005  10:13           228,444 NEWS.txt
10/03/2005  10:36             4,608 w9xpopen.exe
10/03/2005  10:46             4,608 python.exe
10/03/2005  10:46             5,120 pythonw.exe
11/03/2005  08:55    <DIR>          DLLs
11/03/2005  08:55    <DIR>          include
11/03/2005  08:55    <DIR>          libs
11/03/2005  08:55    <DIR>          tcl
11/03/2005  08:55    <DIR>          Tools
11/03/2005  08:55    <DIR>          ..
11/03/2005  08:55    <DIR>          .
11/03/2005  08:55    <DIR>          Doc
11/03/2005  08:56    <DIR>          Lib
              19 File(s)      2,516,912 bytes
              10 Dir(s)  14,520,340,480 bytes free

And here's what Python thinks it is:

C:\Python24>python
Python 2.4 (#60, Nov 30 2004, 11:49:19) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>

-- 
Richie Hindle
richie at entrian.com