[Distutils] Odd thought
Thomas Heller
thomas.heller@ion-tof.com
Fri Feb 23 08:02:02 2001
[Jack Jansen]
> There may be another solution to the double-clicking-setup.py problem.
>
> As there isn't a command line at all on the Mac I had to create a GetArgv()
> dialog that posts a dialog with options to the user and creates a command line.
>
> The good news is that the distutils interface to getargs is *very* good: you
> have all possible arguments available with helptexts, etc.
>
> So if someone ported this dialog to Windows you'd be all set: if setup.py is
> called without arguments you simply post the dialog.
The problem I see is that there is no way to create a dialog-box
on windows without either requiring win32all to be installed,
or to use a custom python interpreter 'py_dialog.exe' which
would then display a dialog box (and maybe also display the
output of the script)
Thomas