[Python-Dev] Distutils2 scripts (original) (raw)

Giampaolo Rodolà g.rodola at gmail.com
Tue Oct 12 01:42:03 CEST 2010

2010/10/12 Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net>:

On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 01:11:24 +0200 Giampaolo Rodolà <g.rodola at gmail.com> wrote:

Wouldn't be kinda weird that one can open the command prompt and run "pysetup" but not "python" on Windows? If you add C:\PythonXY to your path, you can run "python".

I know. My point was you can't do it by default and installing a module is something even a less experienced user usually does. Typing "C:\PythonXX\pysetup" is harder compared to "setup.py install" and solving this problem by modifying your environment paths so that you can just type "pysetup" is something I would expect to be done by the MSI installer, not the user.

--- Giampaolo http://code.google.com/p/pyft/ http://code.google.com/p/psutil/

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