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How much space approximately is required to install the following packs on
Windows XP?

pycairo-1.4.12-2.win32-py2.6.exe
python-2.6.1.msi
pygobject-2.14.2-2.win32-py2.6.exe
pygtk-2.12.1-3.win32-py2.6.exe
pywin32-213.win32-py2.6.exe
gtk-2.12.9-win32-2.exe

Does all this packs requires installation, or it's possible just extract
and place them in to C: drive, then to set environment variables properly?
Does this packs installs dynamic libraries and writes to registry?

 

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Fri, 09 Apr 2010 14:14:34 -0300, Binary

How much space approximately is required to install the following packs
on Windows XP?

pycairo-1.4.12-2.win32-py2.6.exe
python-2.6.1.msi
pygobject-2.14.2-2.win32-py2.6.exe
pygtk-2.12.1-3.win32-py2.6.exe
pywin32-213.win32-py2.6.exe
gtk-2.12.9-win32-2.exe

You might estimate it by the size of those files; use a factor of 2 or 3
due to compression.

Does all this packs requires installation,

python and gtx must be installed as any other Windows program, and
probably require administrator rights. I don't know all of the remaining
files, but they look like Python packages; the installer typically drop
some files into c:\python26\lib\site-packages and register something.

or it's possible just extract and place them in to C: drive, then to set
environment variables properly?
Does this packs installs dynamic libraries and writes to registry?

Python and Gtk, yes. The other packages, maybe not.

 

[DreiJane]

Hello,

Python and gtk are "ambulant" (portable plus intallable by mere
copying without admin rights). gtk only needs to have the path to its /
bin on the PATH . The latter could - and possibly should be - done by
the Python scripts using it, for example:

s = os.environ['PATH']
if s.find(gtkBinDir) == -1: os.putenv("PATH", os.getenv("PATH")+
os.pathsep + gtkBinDir)

for gtkBinDir from some GlobalConstants.py.

Pygtk breaks that "ambulance" - its parts use the registry, but only
for finding Python during installation. Afterwards such a Python is
ambulant again - that means with its pygtk (this little flaw is a
minor reason for me to work on my depikt). I am on Windows normally,
but never considered pywin.

Good luck, Joost

 

[DreiJane]

Rereading my sent answer i wondered, what the variable s was used for
besides that "find" and found nothing. Without it also the layout is
better:

if os.environ['PATH'].find(gtkBinDir) == -1:
     os.putenv("PATH", os.getenv("PATH")+
os.pathsep + gtkBinDir)