[Python-Dev] Distutils2 scripts

[Giampaolo Rodolà]

Wouldn't be kinda weird that one can open the command prompt and run
"pysetup" but not "python" on Windows?
I recall an old issue on the bug tracker in which the latter proposal
was widely discussed and finally rejected for reasons I can't remember
(and it seems I can't even find the bug right now).
I think it's likely that those same reasons are valid for "pysetup" in
the same manner.

For the record, I would be more than happy to be able to open the
command prompt and type "pysetup" and "python" with success, one day.


--- Giampaolo
http://code.google.com/p/pyftpdlib/
http://code.google.com/p/psutil/


2010/10/12 Eric Smith <eric at trueblade.com>:
> On 10/11/2010 5:17 PM, Giampaolo Rodolà wrote:
>>
>> 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".
>
> Same thing you would type at a shell prompt. Presumably we're talking about
> "pysetup install" (which you'll note is one character shorter!). You could
> fully qualify the path if need be, on any platform, using its conventions.
>
> Eric.
>