From: Steve C. <stn...@xm...> - 2005-04-04 22:24:42
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Alex Tweedly wrote: > Schollnick, Benjamin wrote: > > > > >I am unclear on what you are suggesting they are basing their decisions > >on? (The quote does not include it) Presumably on the fact that they > >need to instead Python, WxPython, and PythonCard? Windows programmers > >are fully aware of dependencies... .Net anyone? > > > True - they are aware of them - but that doesn't mean they like them. I > think it would be pretty cool to have the *option* of a single download > and install to do Python, wxPython and Pythoncard in one easy operation. > I have no idea how easy it would be to create that - but I suspect it > would overcome some people's concerns about the complexity of getting > started with Pythoncard. So, something similar to the Enthought Python distribution? http://www.enthought.com/downloads/downloads.htm I'm not sure how much work was required to bundle all those into a single distribution, or how often they update the entire package. As someone mentioned down-thread, tracking all the options and dependencies and creating distributions will be a big job. What about some sort of wizard interface that would step the user through the process? Sort of like the cygwin setup script. e.g. a tool written in PythonCard that'd allow the user to select versions of python/wxPython, unicode flavors, etc. Rather than PythonCard distributing a huge bundle, the PythonCard website would distribute a URLs to the 'good' installers, download the binaries via urllib and launch the install process for python/wxpython/pythoncard. Still a big job, but it might be more managable than the alternative. -Steve |