Wouldn't be kinda weird that one can open the command prompt and run "pysetup" but not "python" on Windows? I recall an old issue on the bug tracker in which the latter proposal was widely discussed and finally rejected for reasons I can't remember (and it seems I can't even find the bug right now). I think it's likely that those same reasons are valid for "pysetup" in the same manner.
For the record, I would be more than happy to be able to open the command prompt and type "pysetup" and "python" with success, one day. --- Giampaolo http://code.google.com/p/pyftpdlib/ http://code.google.com/p/psutil/ 2010/10/12 Eric Smith <e...@trueblade.com>: > On 10/11/2010 5:17 PM, Giampaolo Rodolà wrote: >> >> 2010/10/8 Eric Smith<e...@trueblade.com>: >>> >>> On 10/8/10 10:26 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote: >>>> >>>> In any case, these could be a simple shell script wrapping 'python -m >>>> setup'. >>>> It could even take a --use-python-version option to select the pythonX.Y >>>> it >>>> used, without having to encode the Python version number in the script >>>> name. >>> >>> On Windows it can't be a shell script or batch file, but needs to be an >>> executable. setuptools already deals with this. >> >> If that's the case what would I type in the command prompt in order to >> install a module? >> "C:\PythonXX\pysetup.exe"? >> If so I would strongly miss old "setup.py install". > > Same thing you would type at a shell prompt. Presumably we're talking about > "pysetup install" (which you'll note is one character shorter!). You could > fully qualify the path if need be, on any platform, using its conventions. > > Eric. > _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com