On 11/1/2017 5:47 PM, Terry Reedy wrote:
When pip installs a package into site_packages, does it at any point run package-specific installation code? setup.py? More specifically, can pip install an IDLE extension. If so, I think installing pipgui should add 'x_pipgui.py' to idlelib, if it exists, and add a section to idlelib/config-extension.def. Using the existing extension mechanism would be an alternative to patching IDLE to conditionally add pipgui to some menu.
I meant to add that using the existing extension mechanism would allow pipgui to be run from 3.5 IDLE or even earlier, depending on how it is coded and the tcl/tk installed on the machine. Pipgui really needs ttk, which requires tcl/tk >= 8.5, but that has been true on Python Windows installs at least since 2.7. -- Terry Jan Reedy