Charles Hartman wrote: >> 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. > > But hasn't there been real progress toward making that not true? > And isn't that a good thing? Can't Python be an OSX programming > enrivonment rather than (as well as) a Darwin one? > > I suppose the simple way would be a tiny Applescript drag-and-drop > that just called easy_install . . .
I already wrote a quick-n-dirty Studio frontend to distutils; wouldn't be hard to add egg support to that: http://freespace.virgin.net/hamish.sanderson/Distutils-GUI-1.2.1.dmg.gz Lacks a little polish, mind you - it'd present better if it was an all-in-one solution, rather than firing up Terminal to run distutils and display the installation log. HTH has -- http://freespace.virgin.net/hamish.sanderson/ http://appscript.sourceforge.net _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
