[Pythonmac-SIG] For your eyes only: new 2.3rc1+ installer

[Jack Jansen]

On woensdag, jul 23, 2003, at 23:00 Europe/Amsterdam, Chris Lee wrote:

> You probably already know this but the package manager doesn't manage 
> to get through firewalls.

No, I didn't know this! Code was added before 2.3b1 to make it go 
through firewalls (basically using urllib2 in stead of urllib, which 
should be firewall-aware. This definitely needs to be fixed, or at the 
very least warned about.

What are the symptoms you see?

And, for the rest of the crowd here: is anyone having success using PM 
behind a firewall? Was there anything special you needed to do?

>   Also in my install the help pages come up blank.

This also is news to me. There is one thing you need to do (which is 
obscurely mentioned in the installer welcome message): you need to 
start the IDE once so it can register the help book.

Does the "MacPython Help" show up in your Help Viewer bookshelf?
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