[Distutils] Installing scripts

[Ronald Oussoren]

On 21-jun-04, at 18:54, Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote:

> On Tuesday 15 June 2004 01:07 am, Ronald Oussoren wrote:
>> Please don't, unless MacOS X is treated differently than other unices.
>> There is a minor difference between GUI and non-GUI scripts on OSX 
>> (due
>> to a misfeature of the OS).
>
> --sigh--
>
> So as I understand it, you'd need an extension to be left on for .pyw 
> scripts,
> but could tolerate removal of extensions for other scripts.  This is a
> distinct case from other Unixes and from Windows.

I really have to start reading my own mails some time...

What I tried to say is "please don't ignore scripts with a .pyw 
extension in the scripts argument of setup".

With MacOS X it all depends on how you look at things :-). If you want 
to start scripts by double-clicking on them they should have an 
extension (either .py or .pyw), if you're a unix-head that starts 
scripts from the shell the extension is annoying.

IMHO the only correct way for installing GUI programs on MacOS X is 
creating an application bundle (which is a directory with a special 
structure). But that's just one opinion, and not necessarily relevant 
for this discussion.

Ronald
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