[RELEASED] Python 3.4.0 release candidate 1

[Bob Hanson]

[32-bit Windows XP-SP2]

On Tue, 11 Feb 2014 12:11:49 -0500, Terry Reedy wrote:

> [problems installing rc1]
>
> On 2/11/2014 10:42 AM, Duncan Booth wrote:
>
> > Does it put any useful messages in logfile.txt?
> 
> 'error' occurs on 40. most are like the following
> 
> MSI (s) (40:08) [11:57:25:973]: Package to be registered: 
> 'python-3.4.0rc1.amd64.msi'
> MSI (s) (40:08) [11:57:25:973]: Note: 1: 2262 2: Error 3: -2147287038
> MSI (s) (40:08) [11:57:25:973]: Note: 1: 2262 2: AdminProperties 3: 
> -2147287038
> 
> Here is the one for the boxed message:
> 
> Action 11:57:26: RemovePip.
> Action start 11:57:26: RemovePip.
> MSI (s) (40:0C) [11:57:26:426]: Note: 1: 1721 2: RemovePip 3: 
> C:\Programs\Python34\python.exe 4: -m ensurepip._uninstall
> MSI (s) (40:0C) [11:57:26:426]: Note: 1: 2262 2: Error 3: -2147287038
> Error 1721. There is a problem with this Windows Installer package. A 
> program required for this install to complete could not be run. Contact 
> your support personnel or package vendor. Action: RemovePip, location: 
> C:\Programs\Python34\python.exe, command: -m ensurepip._uninstall
> MSI (s) (40:0C) [11:57:28:874]: Note: 1: 2262 2: Error 3: -2147287038
> MSI (s) (40:0C) [11:57:28:874]: Product: Python 3.4.0b2 (64-bit) -- 
> Error 1721. There is a problem with this Windows Installer package. A 
> program required for this install to complete could not be run. Contact 
> your support personnel or package vendor. Action: RemovePip, location: 
> C:\Programs\Python34\python.exe, command: -m ensurepip._uninstall
> 
> MSI (c) (98:EC) [11:57:30:204]: PROPERTY CHANGE: Deleting SECONDSEQUENCE 
> property. Its current value is '1'.
> Action ended 11:57:30: ExecuteAction. Return value 3.
> MSI (c) (98:EC) [11:57:30:204]: Doing action: FatalError
> A
> 
> Can you make anything of these?

Interesting. I just had problems trying to install the 32-bit rc1
(see thread in py-dev; I think it's now "solved"). 

Here's what Windows Event Viewer said:

'''
Product: Python 3.4.0b3 -- Error 1721. There is a problem with
this Windows Installer package. A program required for this
install to complete could not be run. Contact your support
personnel or package vendor. Action: RemovePip, location:
C:\Python34\python.exe, command: -m ensurepip._uninstall 
'''

Not sure why the installers are complaining about 3.4.0b3...?

Pip seems to be figuring into these glitches, somehow...? 

(Note that both Terry and I are longtime Windows users, so likely
we're both using our own procedures which *have* worked for
years.)

Bob Hanson

-- 
Confucius say, "Never, ever, make apps dependent on the Windows
Registry."