On 2010-08-01, Mark Lawrence <breamore...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > On 01/08/2010 06:17, Tim Harig wrote: >> On 2010-08-01, Lawrence D'Oliveiro<l...@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> wrote: >>> In message<i2q3sk$3p...@speranza.aioe.org>, Tim Harig wrote: >>> >>>> It would be rewarding as it would make writing cross-platform charactor >>>> mode applications possible. >>> >>> I thought Windows users were allergic to command lines. >> >> To the best of my knowledge, there have never been any documentated >> cases of computer software related alleries. There are however several >> chemicals used in the process of constructing computer hardware componets >> which have been linked to allergy illnesses. Maybe Windows users are >> simply allergic to their computers. > > Windows users biggest allergy is to this strange world that involves > "make" on other boxes, whatever that is, it strikes me as rather > archaic. Personally I find double clicking on an msi file rather easier.
I work with several thousand computers located on three different continents. Few of them have mice attached to them. If you think double clicking is a better method, be my guest; but, you need to get a package installed and configured on all of them before lunch. Its also kind of funny that I couldn't get the msi to work with a large percentage of the systems that I work with. Make works on all but one out of the box, and potentially on the last with the addition of SFU or Cygwin. With all that said, I am still not sure what the make/msi question has anything to do with packing a backup, cross platform, implementation of curses that allows the curses module to give Python a cross platform method of character mode manipulation. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list