[Python-checkins] CVS: distutils README.txt,1.14,1.15
Greg Ward
python-dev@python.org
Thu, 1 Jun 2000 19:22:08 -0700
Update of /cvsroot/python/distutils
In directory slayer.i.sourceforge.net:/tmp/cvs-serv14885
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README.txt
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Started updating for forthcoming 0.9 release.
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! Python Distutils
! release 0.8.2
! April 24, 2000
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! Python Distribution Utilities
! release 0.9 (pre)
! June ??, 2000
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! Release 0.8.2 of the Distutils requires Python 1.5.2 or later.
! (Compatibility with Python 1.5.1 is forthcoming, as soon as I merge the
! 1.5.1 compatibility changes from Distutils 0.1.4 and 0.1.5 forward.)
To use the Distutils under Unix, you must have a *complete* Python
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! Release 0.9 of the Distutils requires Python 1.5.2 or later. (If you
! absolutely must Python 1.5.1, Distutils 0.1.5 is backwards compatible.
! However, I have dropped plans to port the current Distutils code back to
! Python 1.5.1, as I have received exactly zero complaints about requiring
! Python 1.5.2 since releasing Distutils 0.8 in April.)
To use the Distutils under Unix, you must have a *complete* Python
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fine. (Python 1.6 includes the winreg module for this purpose, which
the Distutils will use if available.) If not, the Distutils might not
! be able to find the Visual C++ executables.
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fine. (Python 1.6 includes the winreg module for this purpose, which
the Distutils will use if available.) If not, the Distutils might not
! be able to find the Visual C++ executables, in which case it will die
! horribly when you attempt to build any Python extensions.
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The Distutils are included with Python 1.6, so there's generally no need
! to install it under Python 1.6. However, Distutils 0.8.2 is more recent
than the code included with Python 1.6a2, so if you really like life on
! the bleeding edge, you might want to install this Distutils release into
your Python 1.6a2 library.
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The Distutils are included with Python 1.6, so there's generally no need
! to install it under Python 1.6. However, this release is more recent
than the code included with Python 1.6a2, so if you really like life on
! the bleeding edge, you might want to install this Distutils release into
your Python 1.6a2 library.
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The Distutils is intended to have three user communities: developers,
! packagers, and installers. This release caters mainly to developers and
! installers (system administrators, users of Python modules and
! applications); there is currently a little support for generating
! "built" (binary) distributions, so would-be packagers can at least start
! playing with the Distutils.
Documentation for the Distutils is under construction in the form of two
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The Distutils is intended to have three user communities: developers,
! packagers, and installers. Distutils 0.9 is the first release that
! seriously caters to all three communities: developers can use it to
! build and install their modules, as well as create source distributions;
! packagers can use it to create RPMs and (soon!) executable installers
! for Windows; and of course installers can build and install modules from
! source (or just use an installer created by some kind packager).
Documentation for the Distutils is under construction in the form of two
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Python Modules" (for developers and packagers). I've included the LaTeX
source for these two manuals in the "doc" subdirectory; if you know your
! way around LaTeX and the Python documentation tools, you can probably
! get something out of these. Otherwise, you're better off getting the
! latest documentation from the Distutils documentation page:
http://www.python.org/sigs/distutils-sig/doc/
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Python Modules" (for developers and packagers). I've included the LaTeX
source for these two manuals in the "doc" subdirectory; if you know your
! way around LaTeX, the Python documentation tools, and Unix, you might be
! able to get something out of these. Realistically, though, the
! documentation is just provided in the distributio so you can send me doc
! patches; if you want to read it, you're better off getting the latest
! documentation from the Distutils documentation page:
http://www.python.org/sigs/distutils-sig/doc/
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If you are an installer (system administrator or end-user) and you'd
like to try out the Distutils, you've already done so by installing the
! Distutils themselves (thanks!). Additionally, at least two major module
! distributions (Numerical Python and PyXML) use the Distutils for
! installation; if you have installed the Distutils just to get another
! distributions up-and-running, follow the instructions included with that
! distribution. For any "distutil-ized" distribution, though, this should
! always work:
python setup.py install
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If you are an installer (system administrator or end-user) and you'd
like to try out the Distutils, you've already done so by installing the
! Distutils themselves (thanks!). Additionally, a number of module
! distributions now use the Distutils for installation; if you have
! installed the Distutils just to get another distribution up-and-running,
! follow the instructions included with that distribution. For any
! "distutil-ized" distribution, though, this should always work:
python setup.py install
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* Bastian Kleineidam: the "clean" command, and a pile of
patches, bug-fixes, and ideas, large and small
! * Lyle Johnson: bug-spotting and -fixing
* Harry Henry Gebel: bug-spotting and -fixing; the "bztar" archive
! format
[spiritual, in roughly chronological order since the birth of the project]
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* Bastian Kleineidam: the "clean" command, and a pile of
patches, bug-fixes, and ideas, large and small
! * Lyle Johnson: bug-spotting and -fixing; (forthcoming) support
! for Borland's C/C++ compiler
* Harry Henry Gebel: bug-spotting and -fixing; the "bztar" archive
! format; the "bdist_rpm" command
! * Rene Liebscher: smarter extension-building; (forthcoming?)
! Cygwin/Mingw32 support
[spiritual, in roughly chronological order since the birth of the project]
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the CPAN archive (Jarkko), and the CPAN module (Andreas)
! $Id: README.txt,v 1.14 2000/04/25 03:05:16 gward Exp $
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the CPAN archive (Jarkko), and the CPAN module (Andreas)
! $Id: README.txt,v 1.15 2000/06/02 02:22:06 gward Exp $