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Jorn Bruggeman committed Feb 22, 2017
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Expand Up @@ -23,22 +23,19 @@ versioncache.dat. Newer packages MUST ALWAYS have a higher version number than
the one contained in this file. Commit to SVN after building a new package to
ensure versioncache.dat is updated.

Note that you have to have the Windows Installer XML (WIX) toolset installed,
as well as the Win32 extensions for Python module. Get both from:
Note that you have to have the [Windows Installer XML (WiX) toolset](http://wixtoolset.org) installed,
as well as the [Win32 extensions for Python](https://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/).

http://wix.sourceforge.net
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/

Testing
# Testing

The best test of a newly compiled installation package is installation on a
virgin Windows XP, e.g., via VirtualPC/Windows XP Mode on Windows 7. PyNcView
should install correctly, and open NetCDF and HDF4 files correctly. It is also
recommended to test the mapping/projection functionality.

Potential pitfalls
# Potential pitfalls

Python's distutils appears to grab necessarily DLLs wherever it finds them in
* Python's distutils appears to grab necessarily DLLs wherever it finds them in
the system path. On 64-bit systems, this may lead to 64-bit DLLs being included
in the 32-bit package, thus breaking pyncview on any other system (it may still
run on the 64-bit system!). This has been observed for zlib1.dll.

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