Got rid of useless "Welcome" screen.
Folded Tcl/Tk into the main Python component.
Bug introduced during upgrade: Start Menu entries didn't work if
installation was to a path with an embedded space, because the
enclosing quotes somehow got dropped on the cmdline args. Repaired.
Years of wizard-generated code blocks left this script hard to read.
Added many more comments, blank lines, and rearranged related code
into related blocks where they had drifted apart.
Added %_PYMAJOR_% and %_PYMINOR_% compiler vrbls, and reworked script
items to use them as appropriate. This should slash the amount of
hand-fiddling needed when version numbers change. Indeed, in the
body of the script, only the first line should need changing now.
Deleted unreferenced wizard-generated compiler vrbls.
"relative paths" option is enabled, 8.1 rewrites *every* path to be
relative to PCbuild (the dir containing the .wse script), even absolute
paths you type in by hand, paths to the Wise installation itself, and even
paths to the Windows directories (sheesh). Only way to stop it is to
start a path with a variable reference, and we screwed ourselves before
by not using the predefined %_WISE_% vrbl to point to the Wise
installation. Repaired that old, repeated and well-hidden mistake.
Also:
+ Got rid of the %_SRC_% vrbl (such paths always relative to PCBuild now).
+ Changed the %_DOC_% vrbl to prompt for the location of the unzipped
HTML files (defaults to ..\html, cuz that's where I put them, but I
expect I'll change that later cuz I always hated mixing the generated
docs into the CVS tree ... Guido, if you're reading this, where did you
unpack the docs when building a Windows installer? Happy to oblige.).
+ Stopped the generated installer from filling up the entire screen (got
rid of the massive blue background gradient -- new option).
+ Added the helpful app publisher and app URL registry entries that Win2K
displays in its version of Add/Remove.
the old script without any complaints, didn't demand any manual changes,
and built a working installer from it that acts very much like the old one.
It did add a few script items, and changed one, so checking it in now
before I break everything again.
As the bug report notes, the Windows installer creates a useless pydoc
file in the base directory. Changed the installer to rename it pydoc.pyw
instead.
This involves changing the zlib build process to build zlib itself from sources, then use that library. Also updated are the comments to reflect the new official home of zlib, and add Windows specific notes regarding the build process.
