[Distutils] Odd thought

[Robin Becker]

In article <022201c09d98$a8588fe0$e000a8c0@thomasnotebook>, Thomas
Heller <thomas.heller@ion-tof.com> writes
>[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
That's not quite true; with Sam Rushing's calldll extension you could
get some dialogs built without too large an addition, but that stuff is
a bit hacky.
-- 
Robin Becker