On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 9:03 AM, Peter Bittner <[email protected]> wrote: > 2012/4/3 lkcl luke <[email protected]>: >> read the INSTALL.txt, the standard file which is to be read prior to >> installation of any application, which has been the standard location >> for nearly three decades of computer science. > > I thought that was README.txt...? ("... three decades of ...") > > ;-)
rhhmmm... i should be banned from using a computer at 8:30am, 5 minutes after getting up. severely dehydrated. mrrrm.... but seriously, david (and others who may have joined the list recently): your first automatic reaction on downloading any python package should be to look for a README and/or an INSTALL file and actually read them both *before* proceeding. there do exist some things like automatic package installation systems - ezzhhhh setup for example, or zope's buildout system - we do *not* use those because they tend to screw up (bypass and disrespect) standard gnu/linux distribution packaging systems. plus they're a hell of a lot of extra crap. so that means that, on e.g. w32 systems you need to download the dependencies manually (of which there is one - python-comtypes). l.
