Yes.  However, one problem will be that wget probably won't be there on 
most Windows systems.

As the build system gets more and more complicated, it gets harder for 
someone to just checkout the source code, build it and run it on other 
systems.

Might it be possible to use python's ftplib to fetch the file?

Tom


Shawn Walker wrote:
> 2008/5/22 Tom Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>   
>> setup.py is a replacement for the Makefile on non-OpenSolaris systems,
>> specifically for Windows.  We also use it on Mac OS and Linux. Eventually, I
>> had hoped we could eliminate the Makefile entirely since distutils is
>> typically the way that python projects are built.
>>
>> In order to generate the .pyc files and run the unit tests, cherrypy has to
>> be there. So setup.py will have to make sure it is there.
>>     
>
> Ah. That makes sense now. Sorry I didn't make the connection before.
>
> Yes, I can likely do that tonight.
>
> I'm assuming the process should essentially be the same as I've done
> in the makefile?
>
> Cheers,
>   

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