[Python-Dev] 2.3rc2 IDLE problems on a Win2000sp3 box (original) (raw)

Tim Peters tim.one@comcast.net
Sun, 27 Jul 2003 16:37:58 -0400

[Kurt B. Kaiser]

Nick Coghlan points out that if Zone Alarm intercepts the connection the shell will not start. In that case the banner will not be displayed because the current implementation establishes the connection before opening the shell window.

Right.

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It should be possible to pop up the notification dialog before that point in the code is reached, but that's left for 2.3.1. So a comment in the installer may be helpful.

I'm going to skip that. Installer changes have a way of breaking unexpectedly on Finnish Windows XP service pack 2 <0.6 wink>, and adding a new dialog requires tedious non-local changes (e.g., the current first dialog has to grow a new "back" button then) -- in all, it's more code fiddling than I had hoped. Also, as Anna pointed out, true newbies would have no idea what the installer blurb is talking about. I added a melding of your and Nick's text to NEWS.txt instead. That should be enough (IMO).