[Distutils] Installing scripts

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Bob Ippolito wrote:
> 
> On Jul 2, 2004, at 1:23 PM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> 
>> Phillip J. Eby wrote:
>>
>>> At 10:18 AM 7/2/04 -0700, Bob Ippolito wrote:
>>>
>>>> Just throwing this out here.. but how about NEVER removing 
>>>> extensions, but also (optionally) making symlinks to the filename 
>>>> sans extension of scripts if the platform+filesystem supports 
>>>> symlinks?  That would make most people happy, right?
>>>
>>> +1.  Sounds good to me.
>>
>>
>> How would this work with static distribution files ?
>>
>> (Not that I really care; the above is just an academic question :-)
> 
> What is a static distribution file?

A .tar.gz file or a ZIP file. Anything that's not an installer
and doesn't need the 'python setup.py install' dance.

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