On 10/3/06, Phillip J. Eby
IMHO, no. Your particular suggestions would annoy me immensely,
Are you sure? Two points here, that I think you're not noticing:
1. Registering an "App Paths" entry for easy_install would simply make it *possible* to type "easy_install" in the Start/Run box and have it work. It wouldn't force you to use it, and seems quite unlikely to conflict with anything else. (It could also be made optional, as per point #2.)
I had not understood that you meant to use "App Paths". That's reasonable (it's what Python does, for example). I also misread your statement as implying you would add a shortcut. Also, the automatic pause would annoy me. How would you make it *not* happen if I ran the command from a console window I already had open?
2. I said *optional* registration of the ``.egg`` extension; the idea would be that you'd have a dialog come up at the end of the .win32.exe run, to ask you if you wanted to add it.
I noticed that, but assumed you'd want to make the default "yes". I dislike options that I *always* want to switch off. But I retract the "immensely" bit. Overreaction there, sorry :-)
Well, keep in mind that such a thing would only work for *one* level of dependencies; if your dependencies have dependencies you'll go through that repeatedly.
Clearly. That seems implicit (and hence, not a problem) to me in the fact that you aren't getting the dependencies, so how could you scan them for further dependencies. Again, it fits my "keep it simple" attitude. Paul.