[Distutils] Odd thought

Paul F. Dubois dubois@users.sourceforge.net
Thu Feb 22 23:51:01 2001


Right now if you get a package on a Windows machine you can't double-click
setup.py and have anything good happen. But, if setup.py were setup.ipy you
could bind a python "%1" install command to the suffix .ipy so this would
indeed work. The only thing required to make this happen for free is a
change to the Windows installers to recognize the extension. It wouldn't
have any particular bad effect on Unix. You either do ./setup.ipy or python
setup.ipy install, both work.

Or am I being weird? Mnemonic: I py with my little eye, a Python extension
to install.