Re: [Visualpython-users] New Linux installer

[Arthur <ajs...@op...>]

> We found  that distutils just doesn't have enough power and capability to
handle the
> wide range of Linux/Unix environments, at least with the current
> implementation of Visual in C++ with dependencies on CXX.

Don't disagree.

I am moving toward making Linux my "default" working environmnent- and so
have done a good deal of installing of Python modules on Linux recently.
What I am finding is that most of them that have at all complex dependencies
do a configure script.  Many also include a setup.py - which seems to be
there to allow one to "give it a shot" , and fall back on the configure
script if it doesn't go out of the box.

I am finding the versioning issues related to GTK, gcc, gltkarea, etc quite
hairy - in areas that I am playing that are not directly related to VPython
(e.g., trying to get pygtkglarea - a python binding for gtkglarea)  working.
So I have a better undertanding of what Jonathan  is trying to deal with.


Art