Bob Ippolito wrote:
> It's not a great idea to put a front-end on easy_install at this
> point. It would be an enormous amount of work for very little gain.
> It's also not at all designed such that it's easy to break what it's
> doing up into little chunks so that you can properly display status
> and whatnot from a GUI.
I wasn't imagining a lot of work -- just *something* that allows new
users to point and click at a egg and get something useful.
> Using easy_install is quite easy -- you type "easy_install
> WhatYouNeed" and press return. That's it. Users currently need some
> familiarity with Terminal in order to get anything done with Python
> anyway.
That's a good point, just the same. Now if just put a copy of
easy_install in the standard MacPython installer, we'd be one step in
the right direction.
-Chris
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