[Python-Dev] Demos and Tools in binary distributions

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Fri, 02 May 2003 11:01:16 -0400


> There's a suggestion over on pythonmac-sig that I add the Demos and
> Tools directories to a binary installer for MacPython for OSX. For
> MacPython-OS9 I've always included these, as the OS9 installed tree
> was really the same layout as the source tree. But I don't really
> know where I should put them for OSX.
> 
> How is this handled in binary installers for other platforms? I.e. if
> you install Python on Windows, do you get Demos and Tools? Where? And
> if you install an RPM or something similar on Linux?

On Windows, you get a small selection of tools (i18n, idle, pynche,
scripts, versioncheck and webchecker) but no demos, alas.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)