Maciej Fijalkowski Sun, 31 Jul 2011 19:48:26 +0200
Precisely what didn't work?
Ken Watford Sun Jul 31 19:59:55 CEST 2011
The permissions are fine if you're the owner of the files. If another user (say, root) untars them,
Tom Roche Sun, 31 Jul 2011 15:03:34 -0400
e.g., to install FHS-ly
other users may not have appropriate read/execute permissions.
Maciej Fijalkowski Sun, 31 Jul 2011 21:07:17 +0200
as far as I understood, the tarballs are for [extracting] in-place not for installs without serious massaging
Not so much massage is required (e.g., my bash script from http://mail.python.org/pipermail/pypy-dev/2011-July/007893.html does it, as does Dan Stromberg's @ http://mail.python.org/pipermail/pypy-dev/2011-July/007894.html ) but It Would Be Nice for new adopters if the download page documented things like this, esp if intentional. Currently it says only http://pypy.org/download.html#installing
Installing
All versions are packaged in a tar.bz2 or zip file. When uncompressed, they run in-place. For now you can uncompress them either somewhere in your home directory or, say, in /opt, and if you want, put a symlink from somewhere like /usr/local/bin/pypy to /path/to/pypy-1.5/bin/pypy. Do not move or copy the executable pypy outside the tree – put a symlink to it, otherwise it will not find its libraries.
FWIW, Tom Roche <Tom_Roche@pobox.com>