Re: [Jython-users] Complete beginner trying to get started

[dman <ds...@ri...>]

On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 10:22:05AM -0500, Robert W. Bill wrote:
| On Sun, 9 Sep 2001, C. Porter Bassett wrote:
| >
| > First of all, I apologize if this is RTFM.  I tried, but didn't make it very
| > far.
| >
| > I have some python experience, but absolutely *no* java experience, and I am
| > trying to get jython 2.0 up and running on my win2k box.
| >
| > I downloaded it and installed it with jview
| 
| 
| Here's the suspicious part- "jview". With jview, you must first run
| "clspack -auto" before using Jython. Additionally, don't use jview to
| compile Jython code to bytecode. Use jikes or sun's javac instead.

First 'jythonc' is used to compile jython source to java source.  Then
jikes or javac can be used to compile the java source to java
bytecode.  Anyways, jythonc runs the java compiler for you as long as
it can find it.

HTH,
-D