[Python-bugs-list] [ python-Bugs-634078 ] Need to install IDLE

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Bugs item #634078, was opened at 2002-11-05 22:43
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Category: Build
Group: Python 2.3
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Guido van Rossum (gvanrossum)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Need to install IDLE

Initial Comment:
On Windows, IDLE is installed in the start menu, but on
Unix, it is not installed at all. It would be nice if
it was invokable simply by typing

  idle

in the shell.

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>Comment By: Martin v. Löwis (loewis)
Date: 2002-11-05 23:57

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Nothing is wrong with installing IDLE. 

On the particular distro, IDLE may have come from a separate
RPM, though: IDLE depends on Tkinter, which depends on
Tcl/Tk, which depends on X11. So installing IDLE has more
prerequisites than installing Python itself. That's why
distros like to split Tkinter, and subsequently IDLE, into a
separate package, so you can install Python without
installing X11.

All I'm asking is that install-idle is a separate
sub-target, so that you *can* install Python without
installing IDLE.

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Comment By: Guido van Rossum (gvanrossum)
Date: 2002-11-05 23:31

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Actually, I believe I've seen a Linux distro that had idle
installed.

And what's wrong with installing idle?


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Comment By: Martin v. Löwis (loewis)
Date: 2002-11-05 23:24

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Maybe. This would be a deviation from the past, so I'm sure
users will be surprised if 'make install' does that. For
people building binary distributions, there probably needs
to be a target that does the traditional install only, or
they need to invoke altinstall bininstall maninstall but not
idleinstall.

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Comment By: Guido van Rossum (gvanrossum)
Date: 2002-11-05 23:16

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Maybe "make install" should do this then?

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Comment By: Martin v. Löwis (loewis)
Date: 2002-11-05 23:14

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Notice that there is a working distutils configuration for
idle. Just do 'python setup.py install', and you get an idle
executable in your path.

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