RE: [Pythoncard-users] FW: PythonCard feedback

[Kevin A. <al...@se...>]

> From: Guido van Rossum
>
> The Unix instructions are a bit misleading (am I correct that you
> don't use Unix much? :-).  Moving the files to "your python21
> directory" makes no sense, they should be moved into
> <prefix>/lib/python2.1/site-packages/ where <prefix> defaults to
> /usr/local (but may be /usr/bin when Python came as part of your Linux
> distribution).
>
> I *highly* recommend that for the next release you study distutils and
> use it to do the installation -- it takes care of the Unix details
> too.
>
> Referring to "double-clicking" samples also reveals your Windows
> bias. :-)

Okay, the man has spoken. Will some *nix user please provide the complete
text required for the installation based on what is at:
http://pythoncard.sourceforge.net/getting_started.html
Also, what is the appropriate terminology for running a program in *nix from
the GUI interface? Surely, you don't have to run Python programs from the
command-line?

Anyone want to volunteer to do the distutils setup for PythonCard?

> (It would be cool if there was a meta-sample that presented a GUI to
> run any of the other samples, optionally specifying the command line
> options, and with an option to view the source of each sample.  Have
> you seen the wxPython demo?  Very slick!)

Anyone up for doing this? The programs need to be launched as their own
independent program/process, so you probably need to use os.spawnv() on
Windows (though 'start' may also work), and os.fork() or os.execv() on *nix.
The 'Launcher.py' program in Mark Lutz's Programming Python 2nd Edition
shows how to do this and I'm sure there are similar examples elsewhere.

ka