On 10/4/06, Phillip J. Eby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 11:12 PM 10/3/2006 +0100, Paul Moore wrote: > >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? > > The idea would be to register a separate "easy_install-win.exe" under > "easy_install" in App Paths. This version would pause after termination, > while the normal version would not. Since console programs invoked via the > App Paths mechanism *always* get their own new window, this should work out > nicely.
Sadly, not true. The replacement console program 4NT (which I use pretty much exclusively) uses App Paths to locate executables. So if you (in effect) alias easy_install to easy_install-win, you'll break it for 4NT users. And in a way that will confuse the heck out of them, because it's very subtle (mapping an executable name to a different executable via App Paths is not normal usage). Why not just have the second executable with a simple to type name (easy_installw, say) and suggest people type *that* in the Run window? Keep it simple! Paul. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
