[Python-Dev] pydoc for 2.1b1?

[Guido van Rossum]

> On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 12:04:28AM -0500, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> >Sounds like a good idea.  (Maybe idle can also be installed if Tk is
> >found.)  Go for it.
> 
> Will do.  Is there anything else in Tools/ or Lib/ that could be
> usefully installed, such as tabnanny or whatever?  I can't think of
> anything that would be really burningly important, so I'll just take
> care of pydoc.  

Offhand, not -- idle and pydoc seem to be overwhelmingly more
important to me than anything else...

> Re: IDLE: Martin already contributed a Tools/idle/setup.py, but I'm
> not sure how to trigger it recursively.  Perhaps a configure option
> --install-idle, which controls an idleinstall target in the Makefile.
> Making it only install if Tkinter is compiled seems icky; I don't see
> how to do that cleanly.  Martin, any suggestions?

I have to admit that I don't know what IDLE's setup.py does... :-(

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