Automate Python-2.4 Installs on Windows

[Brad Tilley]

Windows users may find this of interest:

http://filebox.vt.edu/users/rtilley/...n_install.html

[Martin v. Löwis]

Brad Tilley wrote:

Windows users may find this of interest:

http://filebox.vt.edu/users/rtilley/...n_install.html

It gives me a dialog 'Enter username and password for "Authentication"'.
What username and password should I use?

I personally recommend

http://www.python.org/2.4/msi.html

to learn about automatic installation.

Regards,
Martin

[Fredrik Lundh]

Martin v. Löwis wrote:

I personally recommend

http://www.python.org/2.4/msi.html

to learn about automatic installation.

which might be great if you know how things work, but is bloody confusing
if you don't. most importantly, how do you set properties? a couple of larger
examples wouldn't hurt (which was Brad's point, I think).

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[Michel Claveau - abstraction méta-galactique non t]

+1

Michel Claveau

[Martin v. Löwis]

Fredrik Lundh wrote:

http://www.python.org/2.4/msi.html which might be great if you know how things work, but is bloody confusing
if you don't. most importantly, how do you set properties?

How do you know they are called properties?-) I would have thought that
"Additional parameters can be passed at the end of this command line" is
precise enough, but perhaps readers ignore it, so I have added an
example explaining how to do that.
a couple of larger examples wouldn't hurt

Except that I don't know how to do that. Which examples, and where to
add them? And how make them larger?

Regards,
Martin

[Fredrik Lundh]

Martin v. Löwis wrote:

which might be great if you know how things work, but is bloody confusing
if you don't. most importantly, how do you set properties?

How do you know they are called properties?-) I would have thought that
"Additional parameters can be passed at the end of this command line" is precise enough

not when you call them "properties" in the rest of the document:

"The property TARGETDIR ...", "A number of properties", etc.

(and KEY=VALUE isn't exactly standard command-line syntax, even under
Windows).

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