Re: [Visualpython-users] Mac installer

[Martin C. <cos...@wa...>]

Bruce Sherwood wrote:

> Martin, thanks for pointing out a mistake in the vpython.org 
> installation instructions, now corrected. Indeed, we now depend on the 
> IDLE that comes with Python, and it is not appropriate to install the 
> old IDLE for VPython.

OK, I understand this now. So I will see how to integrate this with 
python's config files. I will also talk to Fink's python maintainer when 
he comes back from his vacation :-) OTOH...
> 
> You apparently have packaged the VPython version of the IDLE 
> configuration file Libs/idlelib/config-main.def, since IDLE lists 
> "Visual" on its help menu. The file contains this entry:
> 
> [HelpFiles]
> 1 = Visual;C:\Python23\Lib\site-packages\visual\docs\index.html

Hmm, my copy of this file does not contain a Visual entry nor such a 
DOSish path. Are you sure you didn't modify this yourself?

> You could rebuild your visual-py23 installer to point to the /sw/share 
> location of the Visual documentation in this configuration file.

I'll think about something. Maybe a config-main.def that the user is 
invited to copy into ~/.idlerc.

-- 
Martin