[Distutils] Odd thought

[Rene Liebscher]

Thomas Heller wrote:
> 
> [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)

I think most people have Tk installed with their Python, so
it is probably not that big problem.

Rene