On 10/2/06, Christopher Barker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
Well it's possible to create an association with .egg files to open up a terminal and run easy_install, but that's kinda pointless because nobody downloads eggs manually. > > 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. That would deviate from the norm where MacPython ships only with what comes with Python -- nothing third party (beyond dependencies of extensions that ship with Python). That said, I'm +0. -bob _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig