On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 06:50:41PM -0400, Tim Peters wrote:

It has no chance of being popular unless it does *something* to supply a usable UI. The DOS box Windows brings up by default for a .py file isn't usable: the font and size are never what you want, and the DOS box vanishes the instant Python exits (in particular, if Python exits because of an uncaught exception, all evidence vanishes).

Actually, I meant to include a comment to that effect (that it wouldn't be popular) so I get your point. However, a but ugly app that no one cares to use can evolve into something attractive and powerfull if discovered by someone who knows how to put lipstick on a pig. So my point is, Distutils should support sucky applications equally as well as marvelous, magical ones. <g> mwa -- Mark W. Alexander slash@dotnetslash.net The contents of this message authored by Mark W. Alexander are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license. Copyright of quoted materials are retained by the original author(s). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/1.0/