[Edu-sig] Re: PyOpenGL etc. in Python 2.3 (Windows)

[gritsch at iue.tuwien.ac.at]

Quoting Arthur <ajsiegel at optonline.net>:

> Glad you found it useful.
> 
> Just be aware that it is a pared down distro of pyopengl - includes GL,
> GLU,
> GLUT and GLE, but lacks the OpenGL1.2 extensions, demos and docs.
> 
> I like small footprint stuff - especially if it's going under under
> site-packages.
> 
> <digression>
> 
> The Numeric distro takes the tack which I think is correct for Windows -
> the
> functional compiled stuff is library, and under site-packages, and is one
> distro;  the docs and demos are better placed optionally by the user on his
> hard-drive, and therefore need to be a separate distro.  This doesn't come
> up so much on Linux, because generally the source distro goes to one's home
> directory and "setup.py install" puts what is needed as "library" to
> site-packages, and allowing docs and demos to remain put, and available,
> "at
> home".
> 
> There would be much more flexibility in doing a single Windows based
> install
> using disutils if one knew win32all was installed.  Then one can have icons
> placed, and effect "program files", etc. At that point, disutils becomes
> much closer to be an full Windows install utility.
> 
> ActiveWare has made the decision to include win32all in their Windows
> distro.  I wonder what are the downsides of doing the same for the
> python.org distro?

Maybe others like small footprint too and don't include optional packages into 
the core distro ;)

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