win32 installer issue on Windows XP

[sunqiang]

after installed from http://pypi.python.org/packages/any/i/ipython/ipython-0.13.py2-win32.exe#md5=646ca7a11a3b80012b7a1922a5160ace , run C:\Python27\Scripts\ipython.exe will got a error: "C:\Python27\Scripts\ipython.exe is not a valid Win32 application."

update: platform details: 32bit Python 2.7.3 on Windows XP Pro sp3 (x86 32bit)

[minrk]

Can you give more platform details? I can confirm that this file makes a working executable for:

32b Python 2.7.2 on Windows 7 (x64).

[sunqiang]

32bit Python 2.7.3 on Windows XP Pro sp3 (x86 32bit)

[minrk]

Can you try this one?

[sunqiang]

thanks, this one works.

[fperez]

@minrk, what happened? It seems you have this one under control, I'm just curious

[jstenar]

I'm unable to recreate this on windows 7 64-bit using python 2.7.2

What version of windows are you running? Did you try to uninstall reinstall?

[sunqiang]

@jstenar , it's Windows XP, I have updated the platform details in the original post.

[minrk]

For details: The one currently on PyPI was built by 64b Python 2.7.2 with '--plat-name=win32'. The test above was created by 32b Python 2.7.2 (both on Win7 x64). So I guess we need to make sure that the releases are made by 32b Pythons.

[minrk]

Should I just go ahead and replace the existing one on PyPI/GitHub with the new one?

[fperez]

Might as well. Just so I'm sure I'm understanding correctly: if we use 32b Pythons they can make 64b installers fine, but not the other way around?

[minrk]

Might as well.

Done.

if we use 32b Pythons they can make 64b installers fine, but not the other way around?

I believe that's true, but since this seems to be an XP-specific bug, I don't have an XPx64 VM to test.

As we are right now, the installers were all built in Windows 7 (x64) with:

• py2-win32: 32b Python 2.7.1
• py2-win-amd64: 64b Python 2.7.3
• py3-win32: 32b Python 3.2.3
• py3-win-amd64: 32b Python 3.2.3

These are all confirmed to work for their respective Pythons in a different Windows 7 x64 VM, and py2-win32 is now confirmed to work on XP.

[fperez]

On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 12:38 PM, Min RK
reply@reply.github.com
wrote:

These are all confirmed to work for their respective Pythons in a different Windows 7 x64 VM, and py2-win32 is now confirmed to work on XP.

Got it. Might be good to write this down in the 'releasing ipython'
section of the docs. Just dump a section on Windows releasing with
whatever you think is important to remember that is not done by your
script, while it's fresh in your mind. Will make the next release
easier.

Thanks again for the great windows work, we're in much better release
shape on windows now.

[minrk]

I can also add an assert in release_windows to require that the building Pythons be 32b. But that said, I also vote for 0.13 being the last version of IPython to support XP. It is eleven years old, and more than three years out of support from Microsoft, so XP users have no reasonable expectation to be able to use the latest version of anything.

[fperez]

On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 2:16 PM, Min RK
reply@reply.github.com
wrote:

I also vote for 0.13 being the last version of IPython to support XP.  It is eleven years old, and more than three years out of support from Microsoft, so XP users have no reasonable expectation to be able to use the latest version of anything.

+1

[temp4746]

This also happend to 0.13.1, this doesn't affect only XP it affects any 32-bit version of Windows which includes 32-bit Vista/7