RE: [Visualpython-users] Re: download components

[Bruce S. <ba...@an...>]

--On Monday, December 18, 2000 9:15 AM -0500 David Scherer 
<dsc...@CM...> wrote:

>> I have never used it, but have you looked at the dist-utils
>> included in Python
>> 2.0?  I thought here one can write a Python install script, which builds
>> and/or installs extension Modules written in Python and/or C.
>> Doesn't this
>> work as expected?
>
> I think distutils are an easy-to-use setup system by the standards of
> 1970s UNIX.

I looked briefly, and my reaction is like Dave's. In fact, I tried using a 
disk-util package to install Numeric and basically bounced off, because it 
wanted me to run a DOS window in an appropriate directory and type a 
command line with flags. Forget it for many of the users we want to include 
in the enterprise.

Bruce Sherwood