Re: [Pythoncard-users] PythonCard and Distutils

[Andy T. <an...@cr...>]

Roman Suzi wrote:
> 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)
> -----------------------------------------
> 

I'll apply this patch to setup.py and test it with the next release of 
the prototype, thanks.

> 
>>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
> 

Regards,
Andy

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