RE: [Pythoncard-users] PythonCard and Distutils

On Sun, 9 Sep 2001, Kevin Altis wrote:

>> - Run the standard distutils install command ("python setup.py install")
>
>This is one of my pet peeves about distutils. The default is always
>"setup.py install" but if you only have one Python installation (on Windows
>at least) you should just be able to run "setup.py" from the Explorer
>without specifying the "install" command-line option. Perhaps we should
>provide a setup_install.bat file for Windows? Would it be okay to actually
>modify "setup.py" so that if the user didn't specify a command-line option
>it would default to "install" ?

I wished Distutils to have some window popup with options for those
people who do not hesitate to run things before looking what they are.

Just after second line of setup.py:
-----------------------------------------
WIN_DEFAULT_COMMAND = "install"
import sys
if len(sys.argv) == 1 and sys.platform.startswith("win"):
  sys.argv.append(WIN_DEFAULT_COMMAND)
-----------------------------------------

>We'll need an installation for PyCrust as well. Patrick, is this something
>you want to tackle for the 0.6 PyCrust release?

Sincerely yours, Roman Suzi
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