Greg Ward gward@cnri.reston.va.us wrote on Tue, Dec 7, 1999, 4:26 pm [snip]

[Michael again]

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Would it be reasonable to have an "interactive" mode, or am I just being silly again?

Interesting notion. Would this just be a shell for the Distutils commands, eg.

./setup.py --interactive

...

build

[...output of 'build' command...]

...

install

[...output of 'install' command...]

...

quit

or did you have something else in mind?

More or less that; I was thinking of the script you get when you run CPAN for the first time - where you get asked lots of questions about where things are, and most of the time you just hit return a lot.

Something more like this in outline:

$ python setup.py --interactive

install

* Installing some_dist... ** Building somedist ** Where do you want to build? [./build]> <return> ** output of build process * Where do you want to install the pure Python modules? [/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages]> ~/src/python<return> * Where do you want to install extension modules? [/home/mwh21/src/python]> <return> * output of build process

as I said, I'm not particularly convinced this is to be desired; it can certainly be added at a later date.

Cheers, Michael