[drats_users] Windows using 50% CPU after running for a few minutes.

[John E. Malmberg]

On 2/9/2013 4:32 PM, Mike Heitmann wrote:
> Well, I can take a look at it with Windows XP and 7 when I get home
> on  Tuesday I done have anything with Windows 8 yet. We're in Orlando for
> Hamcation until then and I don't have a computer with me other than a
> Rasberry Pi to run my DVAP.

Just downloaded and attempted installs of all the perquisites listed on 
the web page.

The pyserial kit for windows only appears to be available for Python 
2.5.  pyserial-2.5.tar.gz

The other links are also for Python 2.5.  I did find 2.7 versions of 
those products, except that the the 
pygtk-all-in-one-2.24.2.win32-py2.7.msi kit requires Python 2.7 32 bit, 
not 64 bit.

At the python site, the last supported python 2.5 windows binary kit is 
2.5.4 and it is recommended that 2.5.6.

So I now have installed:

Eclipse with PyDev

gtk-2.12.9-win32-2
gtk-dev-2.12.9-win32-2

Python 2.7.3 64 bit.
pywin32-218.win-amd64-py2.7

python 2.7.3 32 bit.
pywin32-218.win-py2.7
pyserial 2.5.tar.gz
pygtk-all-in-one-2.24.2.win32-py2.7

python 2.5.4 32 bit
pycairo-1.2.6-1.win32-py2.5  Installed with warnings.
pygobject-2.12.3-1.win32-py2.5, Installed with warnings.
pygtk-2.10.6-1.win32-py2.7, Installed with warnings.
pyserial-2.5.win32

The registry warnings were about not being able to create keys of 
"py*-py2.5" or "python 2.5 py*-*.*.*" and not being able to set a key 
value of ""c:\python2.5\Remove*.exe" -u "c:\python25\py*-wininst.log""

So at this point, I have not tried to extract the d-rats development zip 
file and see what it will take to build and run it, so I do not know if 
I have a viable build environment for any version of Python.

Regards,
-John
wb8tyw at qsl.net
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