I sincerely apologize for not reading the README.txt in greater detail. I had read the INSTALL.txt and (shame on me) assumed that it contained all the info I needed to get pyjd installed.
David On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 04:26, lkcl luke <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >
