[PYTHONMAC-SIG] Planning The Installer for MacPython 1.5

[Just van Rossum]

Hi,

We're in the process of getting a free licence for MindVision's installer
package, and I have a good feeling that this is going to work out. Many
thanks to Jeffrey C. Ollie for pointing us toward MindVision, it seems a
great package, much easier to use than StuffIt InstallerMaker.

Anyway, I have volunteered to set it up, and (when the license works out)
am starting to plan it. There's a couple of things I am not so sure about,
so I'd like your opinion.

The installer would has two main options, "Easy Install" and "Custom
Install". Question number one: should the "Easy Install" install fat
binaries by default or binaries for the system we're installing to? What is
usual?

With "Custom Install" we can separate everything into packages (with the
Lite version we'll have to use, we can't make sub packages).
Does it make sense to do this? And if yes, what do you think of the
following subdivision:

	- interpreter + core (also makes prefs file)
	- all "plug ins" (also makes plug in aliasses)
		(some pseudo sub-packages? overkill?)
		- toolboxmodules (Qd, Res, Win, the lot)
		- _tkinter
		- waste
		- img
		- ... what else?
	- library
	- tools (EditPythonPrefs, MakeApplet, applet template, scripts, ...?)
	- demos (:Demo & :Mac:Demo ?)
	- ... what else?

Is this handy?

Thanks for any feedback,

Just



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