[Distutils] Odd thought

Guido van Rossum guido@digicool.com
Fri Feb 23 08:54:01 2001


> 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.

That sounds to me like the right solution.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)