From: Kevin A. <al...@se...> - 2001-09-09 18:53:21
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Okay, you got me. I'll shut up now. ka > -----Original Message----- > From: pyt...@li... > [mailto:pyt...@li...]On Behalf Of Roman > Suzi > Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2001 11:30 AM > To: pyt...@li... > Subject: RE: [Pythoncard-users] PythonCard and Distutils > > > On Sun, 9 Sep 2001, Kevin Altis wrote: > > >> - Run the standard distutils install command ("python setup.py > install") > > > >This is one of my pet peeves about distutils. The default is always > >"setup.py install" but if you only have one Python installation > (on Windows > >at least) you should just be able to run "setup.py" from the Explorer > >without specifying the "install" command-line option. Perhaps we should > >provide a setup_install.bat file for Windows? Would it be okay > to actually > >modify "setup.py" so that if the user didn't specify a > command-line option > >it would default to "install" ? > > I wished Distutils to have some window popup with options for those > people who do not hesitate to run things before looking what they are. > > Just after second line of setup.py: > ----------------------------------------- > WIN_DEFAULT_COMMAND = "install" > import sys > if len(sys.argv) == 1 and sys.platform.startswith("win"): > sys.argv.append(WIN_DEFAULT_COMMAND) > ----------------------------------------- > > >We'll need an installation for PyCrust as well. Patrick, is this > something > >you want to tackle for the 0.6 PyCrust release? > > Sincerely yours, Roman Suzi > -- > _/ Russia _/ Karelia _/ Petrozavodsk _/ rn...@on... _/ > _/ Sunday, September 09, 2001 _/ Powered by Linux RedHat 6.2 _/ > _/ "Another case of Cherry Coke down the programming hatch!" _/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Pythoncard-users mailing list > Pyt...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pythoncard-users > |