RE: [Pythoncard-users] PythonCard and Distutils

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

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
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