distutils install on windows

[Gerhard Häring]

Lee Harr <missive at frontiernet.net> wrote:
> Hi;
> 
> I am writing a library which uses Python and Pygame to help
> people get started programming very quickly. It is a pure
> python distribution and it is packaged with distutils.
> (http://www.nongnu.org/pygsear/)
> 
> The thing is, to install on *nix is easy, just
> python setup.py install
> but for my extreme-newbie windows users it is not quite so
> straight forward:
> 
> - Their dos-prompt path does not seem to have the python.exe
>    I tried to help get that set up, but we have not yet been
>    able to figure it out.
> - But they can run python scripts by double-clicking on them.
> 
> so...
> 
> Maybe the default for setup.py should be "install" so that
> they can just click on setup.py and have it install the
> distribution?

You don't need to have your end users mess with setup.py. Just build a binary
installer for them using "python setup.py bdist_wininst" :-)
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Gerhard Häring
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