[Distutils] Draft of new setuptools installation instructions

Phillip J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Tue Oct 3 23:46:18 CEST 2006


At 02:40 PM 10/3/2006 -0700, Bob Ippolito wrote:
>Wouldn't it be easier to just tell them to do "sh
>./setuptools-0.6c4-py2.4.egg" instead of marking it executable first?

I found the phrasing much more awkward that way, as it led to having to 
explain the idea that it's got a shell script in there.  It seemed easier 
to just dodge the issue.  But if you can come up with a phrasing that 
works, go for it.



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