>  Hello, when installing TDK 4.1 all went well until the Teapot thing.

Can you give me a more exact string from the log I can look for ?

>  A
>  blank dialog box popped up and the install stopped.  I waited several
>  minutes and still stopped.

We have not seen that in our test installs before. Can you tell us a bit
more about the machine you were installing TDK on ?
I.e. was this on Win Vista? Win XP? win 2K?

Had you ActiveTcl installed ? If yes, which version ?

>   There was no indication of progress or
>  anything.  So I cancelled the dialog box and installation continued a
>  little further and another dialog box popped up and installation again
>  stopped.  Again I waited several minutes with again the same results as
>  before--nothing.  I again cancelled the dialog box and the installation
>  completed with no errors.

My theory, based on this description, is, that you have an ActiveTcl
installed where the 'teacup' has a bug which causes it to not deal well with
a 'wish' shell when it interogates it for 'teacup link info'. The bug is
that 'teacup' is not explicitly 'exit'ing the shell. This is fine when a
'tclsh' is queried, but a 'wish' will put up its standard empty toplevel
window and then enter the event loop instead of exiting on its own.

The TDK installer now uses 'teacup link info' on all the clsh's and wish'es
found in the PATH to locate all the local repositories TclApp could use, and
can this run into teacup's bug.

That we are not seeing it here during our tests could be explained by us
using a newer ActiveTcl, where teacup's bug is fixed.


The fix?
(1)	Either install a newer ActiveTcl before installing TclDevKit,
(2)	or use 'teacup's 'update-self' command to upgrade the 'teacup'
	application in your ActiveTcl installation to a version without the bug.

--
	Andreas Kupries <andreask@[...].com> 
	Developer @ http://www.ActiveState.com
	Tel: +1 778-786-1122

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