[Pythonmac-SIG] Let's do it completely different!

[Kevin Ollivier]

Maybe then what is needed is to have a Applications/Python folder, and 
have an "Extensions" folder inside that (or Lib/site-packages, etc.) 
that people can drop modules into. That way, Mac users can add/install 
modules without having to interact with the Terminal or Unix filesystem. 
I think that applets also should be able to have any necessary modules 
above and beyond what Jaguar Python provides inside the app bundle so 
that they can run on machines without MacPython installed, though. (Or 
maybe BuildApplication could provide this functionality?)

Kevin

On Tuesday, October 22, 2002, at 11:51  AM, Chris Barker wrote:

> Jack Jansen wrote:
>> On Tuesday, October 22, 2002, at 06:00 , Tony Lownds wrote:
>>> I'd be extremely happy if users could find the "right place" to put
>>> extensions through the finder. Neither current
>>> Python in CVS nor the plans for "doing it completely differently" have
>>> this property.
>>
>> Could you elaborate, please? I'm not sure I understand exactly what you
>> mean...
>
> My interpretation of that comment is that the Finder, by default, does
> not show the "unixy" parts of the file system (/usr etc.) This makes it
> impossible for users to view/manipulate any of those parts of the file
> system with the finder. If that is where the Python stuff is, it's
> tricky for a user to find whether a given package is installed, for
> instance.
>
> Frankly, this is my number one annoyance with OS-X: if you want to do
> old time command line unix stuff, you can do that, and if you want to do
> all-gui mac-like stuff, you can do that, but never the twain shall meet:
> it is very awkward to switch between the two.
>
> I have set up the finder to show me everything, which is an improvement.
> Does anyone know how I could put a button on the finder that would open
> a terminal, with the working directory set to the current finder
> selected folder? I use this feature all the time in KDE on Linux, it is
> very useful.
>
> -Chris
>
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