Re: [Visualpython-users] History and Status?

[Bruce S. <bas...@un...>]

Arthur, I just started to look at your materials and I have some naive
questions:

I gather that this setup.py is for use on Windows only if one has the Visual
C compiler?

What would be involved in making an installer based on distutils for those
who do not have a C compiler on their Windows machine?

What would be involved in making an installer based on distutils in the form
of an .exe file that is doubleclickable, to avoid sending a novice to the
DOS command prompt? I understood you to say that this is possible, and I
understand that what you've just sent out isn't that.

I assume it is your intention that a zip file would contain everything in
your manifest list, ready to go, in the appropriate directories. Is that
right? That is, despite what you mention in your current README.txt, the
visual and cvisual files would be included, right? On the other hand, if you
do intend the user to follow the current instructions, wouldn't you have to
give more explicit instructions about getting the visual files, getting the
cvisual files, putting the cvisual folder inside the visual folder, and
putting setup.py at the same level as the visual folder? "Change to the
top-level directory" might not mean much to the novice.

Why in setup.py is it "IDLE_Builder"? What does this have to do with IDLE?

Minor typos in README.txt:

VPYTHON was misspelled in this line:

BUILDING AND INSTALLING VPYTHON FROM SOURCE

And in the following line you said "Numeric" when you meant Visual:

    Using the python into which you wish to install Visual, execute:

Thanks for working on this, Arthur!

Bruce Sherwood