Re: [Pythoncard-devel] Mac Tiger install instructions needed

Kevin Altis wrote on 12/27/2005 01:54:59 PM:

> I'm still running Panther on my PowerBook and given my aversion to 
> changing things that seem to work fine I probably won't upgrade until I 
> get a new machine next year. That means I don't have an easy way to 
> write install instructions for Tiger, which we definitely need. I went 
> ahead and added duplicates of the current panther install instructions 
> to cvs macosx_panther_installation.html, 
> macosx_tiger_installation.html. Any Tiger install instructions are 
> probably going to need to incorporate the info at:
> 
> http://undefined.org/python/#TigerPython23Compat
> 
> Can anyone with a Tiger system tweak the macosx_tiger_installation.html 
> document so we can add that to the main site. If it needs to use Python 
> 2.4.x and a later version of wxPython that is fine. I'll push this 
> request to the users list if none of us have access to Tiger.
> 


I'm using PythonCard with wx 2.6.1 and Python 2.3.5 on Tiger, but I had
an error during the wx binary install. I've seen that same error on every
Tiger system I've tried.

What I did was install TigerPython23Compat.pkg and then run the binary
wx installer for Panther. After running the binary install, an error
message appears in the GUI stating "There was an error during the install.
Please try again." 

Trying again doesn't make the error message go away.

I don't know what's generating that error message, but wx seems to work
anyway. It still has some visual bugs, but I don't think that has anything
to do with Tiger--I seen the same visual bugs under Panther. These visual
glitches are associated with wx 2.6.x and don't happen under 2.5.3.
(PythonCard TextField widgets don't display properly when populated
during on_initialize -- the text is left scrolled out of view).

Tiger does bundle wxPython 2.5.3 unicode, so if that version is acceptable
some users may be able to skip installing wx. Since PythonCard seems
to have less visual glitches under 2.5.3, maybe we should just recommend
using the bundled wx on the instructions page. That would considerably
simplify the instructions.

On the other hand, some folks may want to use Python 2.4.x. That will
probably entail installing a separate copy of wx....