[Python-Dev] Demos and Tools in binary distributions (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Fri, 02 May 2003 11:01:16 -0400

There's a suggestion over on pythonmac-sig that I add the Demos and Tools directories to a binary installer for MacPython for OSX. For MacPython-OS9 I've always included these, as the OS9 installed tree was really the same layout as the source tree. But I don't really know where I should put them for OSX.

How is this handled in binary installers for other platforms? I.e. if you install Python on Windows, do you get Demos and Tools? Where? And if you install an RPM or something similar on Linux?

On Windows, you get a small selection of tools (i18n, idle, pynche, scripts, versioncheck and webchecker) but no demos, alas.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)