[pypy-dev] autopath obsolete?

[holger krekel]

[Christian Tismer Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 11:22:53AM +0200]
> Hi colleagues,
> 
> I was wondering why we still need stuff like autopath?
> I simply use a pypy.pth file in my standard python
> folder which contains the path to pypy, and things
> work fine.
> Why do we really need autopath?

The basic idea of autopath is that after you do 

    svn co http://codespeak.net/svn/pypy/trunk/src 

and then 

    python src/pypy/test_all.py 

or any other test file or e.g.

    python src/pypy/interpreter/py.py 

it just works without _any_ setup/installation steps.  
For the same reason we come with the neccessary 
dependencies to run py.py. 

cheers, 

    holger