[pypy-dev] newbie needs pypy setup help

[Tom Roche]

Maciej Fijalkowski Sun, 31 Jul 2011 19:48:26 +0200
>>>> Precisely what didn't work?

Ken Watford Sun Jul 31 19:59:55 CEST 2011
>>> The permissions are fine if you're the owner of the files. If another
>>> user (say, root) untars them,

Tom Roche Sun, 31 Jul 2011 15:03:34 -0400
>> e.g., to install FHS-ly

>>> other users may not have appropriate read/execute permissions.

Maciej Fijalkowski Sun, 31 Jul 2011 21:07:17 +0200
> as far as I understood, the tarballs are for [extracting] in-place not
> for installs without serious massaging

Not so much massage is required (e.g., my bash script from

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/pypy-dev/2011-July/007893.html

does it, as does Dan Stromberg's @

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/pypy-dev/2011-July/007894.html

) but It Would Be Nice for new adopters if the download page documented things like this, esp if intentional. Currently it says only

http://pypy.org/download.html#installing
> Installing

> All versions are packaged in a tar.bz2 or zip file. When uncompressed,
> they run in-place. For now you can uncompress them either somewhere in
> your home directory or, say, in /opt, and if you want, put a symlink
> from somewhere like /usr/local/bin/pypy to /path/to/pypy-1.5/bin/pypy.
> Do not move or copy the executable pypy outside the tree – put a
> symlink to it, otherwise it will not find its libraries.

FWIW, Tom Roche <Tom_Roche at pobox.com>