installing IDLE & other Tools

I just saw your note about whether IDLE was packaged with the Python RPMs. It isn't, nor is anything in the Tools directory. I did the simplest thing possible with the RPM and ran "make install". The RPM installs whatever is installed as a result of that. We've discussed installation of other tools once or twice, but I've never decided what exactly to do. The compiler package, for example, comes with a distutils setup.py script that will do the job. I think the best way to move forward is to write setup.py scripts for all the other tools that ought to be installed. I don't know how to package up idle cleanly, though. I need to decide what to install and where to install it. The Tools/idle directory is nominally a package, but it doesn't seem like that will help much for installing it. If we want to call the executable script idle.py, it will clash with the idle package name. Any advice here? It doesn't seem like there is any obvious way to "install" IDLE; it looks like it is intended to be run out of the source directory. If anyone else owns (or otherwise feels responsible for) a package in the Tools directory that ought to be included with the RPMs, please write a setup script for it. Jeremy
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Jeremy Hylton