[Michael Haubenwallner, to Andreas Jung]
Must be yesterdays version then (i had just that error message, after removing an ancient pywintypes23.dll from C:\WINNT\system32).
There are 2 pywintypes23.dlls now: $ZOPE_HOME\bin\PyWinTypes23.dll $ZOPE_HOME\bin\Lib\site-packages\pywin32_system32\pywintypes23.dll
Zope starts fine now (although there are no messages in the console window anymore).
[Tim Peters]
Ya, I noticed that too. I don't know what's _intended_ here.
[Mark Hammond]
The version in pywin32_system32 will never be used at runtime. It is a side-effect of the bdist_wininst hacks I pull in a normal pywin32 install.
On my box, even with a version in %system32%, I now only ever get the Zope bin version loaded - which should mean people with older versions in system32 will not (since yesterdays patch) have a problem either. Note the careful use of 'should' <wink>'
My "that" above was ambiguous; I was actually talking about the lack of output in the console window, and I don't know what the intent is there. The "extra" DLLs in pywin32_system32 didn't bother me, but it's good to know too that they should not have <wink>. I've seen the 2.8b2 installer work fine on 3 other boxes since then, from Win2K to WinXP Pro, so I think this is in good shape for now. Thank you again for the help, Mark!