[osgeo4w-dev] ANN: Python 2.7.4

[Mikhail Titov]

I apologize for the noise. At some point renaming
\windows\system32\python27.dll helped. I'm not sure why it did not do
the trick previously. I also uninstalled a few plugins that gave errors
on load while on 2.7.2.

On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at  2:22 PM, Mikhail Titov <mlt-0UDz38MK/Mo at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at  1:23 AM, Matt Wilkie <maphew-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w-XMD5yJDbdMReXY1tMh2IBg at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> Python 2.7.4 has been uploaded to the Osgeo4W download mirror and
>> passes install tests on my machine. Please test on yours.
>
> I suspect that this upgrade somehow breaks my QGIS installation. I tried
> several times that downgrading python-core from 2.7.4-2 to 2.7.2-4 makes
> it possible to at least start QGIS while subsequent upgrade makes QGIS
> fail to start. It simply disappears after a splash screen saying
> something like "Starting Python...".
>
> I tried to isolate an issue as I have way too many python
> installations. Here is how I tried to start QGIS (other than in a usual
> way)
>
> ,----[ qgis.bat ]
> | @echo off
> | 
> | SET OSGEO4W_ROOT=C:\OSGeo4W
> | SET PYTHONHOME=%OSGEO4W_ROOT%\apps\Python27
> | SET PATH=%OSGEO4W_ROOT%\apps\Python27\Scripts;%OSGEO4W_ROOT%\bin
> | rem ;%PATH%
> | echo %PATH%
> | "%OSGEO4W_ROOT%"\apps\qgis\bin\qgis.exe %*
> `----
>
> So it says only "C:\OSGeo4W\apps\Python27\Scripts;C:\OSGeo4W\bin" in
> reply.
>
> Note that QGIS starts (with a reasonable amount of complaints) with
> python-core 2.7.4-2 if I comment out everywhere PYTHONHOME so it is nil.
>
> P.S. I'm running Windows XP 32 bit with SP3

-- 
Mikhail