On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 03:03:29PM +0100, Paul Moore wrote: > 2009/5/7 Doug Hellmann <doug.hellm...@gmail.com>: > > Why make me define an entry point for that? I can just put it in /usr/bin > > or somewhere in the path on Windows and call it as "hello.py". > > That works but a lot of Unix users have in the past objected to having > '.py' in the name. People then start trying to cater for them by > leaving off the '.py', which means it doesn't work on Windows, etc > etc.
Why can't the install_scripts command from distutils install with a .py extension on windonws and without on UNIX? (Or rather: what would be wrong with such an approach?) Regards Floris -- Debian GNU/Linux -- The Power of Freedom www.debian.org | www.gnu.org | www.kernel.org _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig