Vivian De Smedt wrote:
Distutils have a script functionality that copy the corresponding file into a common script folder (that could be on the path) and sligthly modify the first line of the script to reflect the path of the python executable. It is very nice but for the window platform I think it could be improved.
First the extention of the script could be .cmd such that they will be accessible as commands as soon as the script folder is in the path.
Second the first line adaptation could be slightly different and take advantage of the -x option of the python executable
#!python foo bar
could become:
@C:\Python24\python.exe -x "%~f0" foo bar & exit /b
instead of:
#!C:\Python24\python.exe -x "%~f0" foo bar & exit /b
Sounds like a good idea. The only thing I don't understand is why you'd want to use ".cmd" instead of the more common ".bat".
Follows a proposition of modification of the copy_scripts function of the build_scripts.py that reflect these changes
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