On Fri, 2 May 2003, Michael Hudson wrote:

Jack Jansen writes:

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There's a suggestion over on pythonmac-sig that I add the Demos and Tools directories to a binary installer for MacPython for OSX. For MacPython-OS9 I've always included these, as the OS9 installed tree was really the same layout as the source tree. But I don't really know where I should put them for OSX.

Surely this is more a question about OSX than Python? I.e. the examples should go where the user expects them. /Developer/Examples/Python? Of course, not everyone who installs Python will have the dev tools...

Cheers, M.

Are there currently any make targets for 'tools' and 'demos'? Adding them might be a way to gently influence where they get installed when all the different distros build thier packages.

On vrijdag, mei 2, 2003, at 18:20 Europe/Amsterdam, Just van Rossum wrote:

Michael Hudson wrote:

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Surely this is more a question about OSX than Python? I.e. the examples should go where the user expects them. /Developer/Examples/Python? Of course, not everyone who installs Python will have the dev tools...

Actually, I didn't know until recently that 3rd party stuff sometimes gets installed there (eg. the PyObjC doco). I would actually expect it in /Application/MacPython-2.3/..., as that's where the apps get installed. I guess /Developer/... would make sense if the Python apps got installed in /Developer/Applications/, which they don't.

I'm also tempted to go with /Applications/MacPython-2.3/Demo and .../Tools. That is what a lot of Mac applications do. It has a slight problems, though: it would look unintuitive to a pure-unix user. But as there isn't a standard location for this on unix anyway: who cares <wink>. A slightly more serious problem is that the README's in Tools and Demo aren't really meant for the 100%-novice, and a prominent location at the top of the /Applications/MacPython-2.3 folder will make it almost-100%-certain that these files are going to be among the first they read. I could put Demo and Tools one level deeper (in an Extras folder?) and provide a readme there explaining that these demos and tools are for all Pythons on all platforms, so may not work and/or may not be intellegible int he first place. -- - Jack Jansen http://www.cwi.nl/~jack - - If I can't dance I don't want to be part of your revolution -- Emma Goldman -