On 10/3/06, Phillip J. Eby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >IMHO, no. Your particular suggestions would annoy me immensely, > > Are you sure? Two points here, that I think you're not noticing: > > 1. Registering an "App Paths" entry for easy_install would simply make it > *possible* to type "easy_install" in the Start/Run box and have it > work. It wouldn't force you to use it, and seems quite unlikely to > conflict with anything else. (It could also be made optional, as per point > #2.)
I had not understood that you meant to use "App Paths". That's reasonable (it's what Python does, for example). I also misread your statement as implying you would add a shortcut. Also, the automatic pause would annoy me. How would you make it *not* happen if I ran the command from a console window I already had open? > 2. I said *optional* registration of the ``.egg`` extension; the idea would > be that you'd have a dialog come up at the end of the .win32.exe run, to > ask you if you wanted to add it. I noticed that, but assumed you'd want to make the default "yes". I dislike options that I *always* want to switch off. But I retract the "immensely" bit. Overreaction there, sorry :-) > Well, keep in mind that such a thing would only work for *one* level of > dependencies; if your dependencies have dependencies you'll go through that > repeatedly. Clearly. That seems implicit (and hence, not a problem) to me in the fact that you aren't getting the dependencies, so how could you scan them for further dependencies. Again, it fits my "keep it simple" attitude. Paul. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
