[Visualpython-users] re: Distribution

[<art...@rs...>]

Bruce -

I thought I got over my problem with authority figures about thirty years
ago.

God Bless you, Bruce.

You make me feel twenty again.

You write:

>>You are mistaken

I am most defintely *not* mistaken.  If I open regular IDLE after having
downloaded VPython on a look see basis, even *after* having uninstalled it
I will forever more be getting the VPython top level help index when I do
Help>Python Documentation

That is ill mannered and wrong - absolutely, no doubt about it.

Earth-shattering, no.

Ill mannered and wrong, no question.

And it can be avoided by changing a
single letter.

In EditorWindow.py at the line:

        fn = os.path.join(fn, os.pardir, os.pardir, "Doc", "index.html")

change index.html to vindex.html.

Distribute the VPython top-level index.html as vindex.html - issue gone.

Why are you blind to this?

As to the general issue of the distribution - I truly commend you for
organizing successully the big foot distributions.  I am not trying to
minimize the importance of the availability of
that kind of distribution - nor the work that went into creating it.  I
*was* impressed by how smoothly the RedHat install went.

But 'slightly longer down-load time' I think is not quite saying it right when (lets
say) 95% of that download is not VPython, but other modules upon which it happens to
depend.

By directing folks for example to the Numeric site, they have the opportunity to
better appreciate and understand it as a project separate and distinct
from VPython, in which a number a very bright folks have and continue to contribute
efforts that benefit many of us  - most certainly the VPython user.

Or find some other way to acknowledge with more overt appreciation the
Numeric backbone of VPython because I *do* think it is not given an
adequate, well-mannered nod of debt and appreciation in the distribution as
it stands.

But I guess that's just one crank's opinion.

As to any other points I was in good faith and with best intentions trying to
make - I pass it as a losing battle.

Art