[Python-Dev] Distutils2 scripts

Giampaolo Rodolà g.rodola at gmail.com
Mon Oct 11 23:17:30 CEST 2010


2010/10/8 Eric Smith <eric at trueblade.com>:
> On 10/8/10 10:26 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote:
>> In any case, these could be a simple shell script wrapping 'python -m
>> setup'.
>> It could even take a --use-python-version option to select the pythonX.Y
>> it
>> used, without having to encode the Python version number in the script
>> name.
>
> On Windows it can't be a shell script or batch file, but needs to be an
> executable. setuptools already deals with this.

If that's the case what would I type in the command prompt in order to
install a module?
"C:\PythonXX\pysetup.exe"?
If so I would strongly miss old "setup.py install".


--- Giampaolo


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