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So, the new Windows installer is done. Sadly, it too needs MinGW32. So, what I’ve decided to do is just put eggs of the dependencies in the directory with setup.py. Hopefully it’s smart enough to find these and install them that way, so it won’t need a compiler. I don’t know. I’ll post back later with the results.

I’ve finished writing the new & improved install script, and now I’ve got to test it. So you can expect that sometime later today or tomorrow. I’ve decided to forego releasing a pre-compiled binary package for Windows for version 0.1.0b, and just release one when the new installer comes out. In other news, I’m working on implementing a few new features. In the process of doing so, I’ve uncovered quite a bit of bugs in the command line parser. So just be aware, if you find any, I probably already know about them, and am working on a fix. Also, I’ve finally given in on my whole anti-GUI thing and have just decided to go ahead and write one, since it will allow me to implement some extra features that wouldn’t work with the command line interface (eg. album covers, artist pics, etc….). It will add a few extra dependencies, but with the new & improved installer, they should be installed automagically. That’s about all for current development news. I’m running on very little sleep right now, so please forgive me if some of this makes no sense.

Yay!

The installer works fine under Windows XP (though it is a little short-sighted; if the install files/directories already exist, it chokes and dies). It doesn’t add the executable to your PATH yet, but I may (probably) decide to make it before release day comes around. As for the program itself… I’ve still got a few bugs to work out. I’ll keep you posted.

setuptools is having some trouble installing PyXML and PyCrypto under Windows. So you will have to do it manually, as I did. And since Windows doesn’t come with any compiler installed by default (**cough**inferiorproprietygarbage**coughcough**), you’ll have to install one yourself (I myself used MinGW32). MinGW32 works well and is free and open-source. So you’ll be fine. Just download the automated installer for it, then download the source tarballs for PyXML and PyCrypto, and run python setup.py build -c mingw32 && python setup.py install –skip-build for each of them, then proceed with last.tag’s normal installation procedures (which would be something like python setup.py install, if I remember correctly). If you all are wondering why the heck I’m telling you this when a release isn’t even available yet, you should know you can always just install from the latest svn snapshot at https://lasttag.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/lasttag/. Just don’t expect it to work.