Re: [Visualpython-users] History and Status?

[Andrew M. <mor...@ph...>]

On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 07:41, Bruce Sherwood wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
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> From: "Jonathan Brandmeyer" <jbr...@ea...>

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> > Arthur has convinced me that the right way to go for source and binary
> > distributions is to provide a setup.py (or other appropriate mechanism,
> > e.g, debs, windows exe) that does The Right Thing.  IMO, The Right Thin=
g
> > is that which bears the same look and feel as other extension modules
> > for a given platform.  We may be able to provide binaries for only a fe=
w
> > platforms, so the source distribution must be clean.
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> It is possible that the only binary distribution we need is for Windows,
> simply because that's almost the only platform where it is unlikely to fi=
nd
> a compiler. It's also the platform where the user is most likely to be a
> novice with respect to Python and to programming.
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Is it possible to create a Vpython rpm (or deb) for easy linux
installation?  I know that wouldn't necessarily answer the question of
where the demos and docs should go, but it might simplify installation
problems for people new to Vpython.

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Andrew Morrison <mor...@ph...>