[Pythonmac-SIG] Installing PyObjC via PackMan

[Kevin Ollivier]

On Thursday, July 31, 2003, at 08:43  AM, Bob Ippolito wrote:

>
> On Thursday, Jul 31, 2003, at 04:53 America/New_York, Jack Jansen 
> wrote:
>
>>
>> On donderdag, jul 31, 2003, at 07:39 Europe/Amsterdam, Ronald 
>> Oussoren wrote:
>>> The PyObjC examples/documentation are not installed using distutils, 
>>> and I assume this means they are not installed by PacMan. You could 
>>> download the PyObjC installer for Python 2.2, the .DMG also contains 
>>> a folder containing the Examples and Documentation. That should work 
>>> just fine with Python 2.3.
>>
>> Ah, yes, all the installers have this problem: supporting documents 
>> like examples and documentation aren't installed.
>>
>> I think we need to do two things about this:
>> - for the future, think of a way this could be added to distutils.
>> - for now, we need a way to give users who do a binary install of a 
>> package a way to get access to the examples. One way would be to 
>> create an extra installer, pyobjc_examples-1.0b2-binary, that would 
>> put the examples and any other interesting stuff you don't get with a 
>> binary install into /Applications/MacPython-2.3/Extras.
>>
>> Does this sound like a workable plan?
>
> Also for documentation..  I was thinking last night that python could 
> keep an indexed directory of all pydoc and html documentation for 
> python.  Many packages use HTML documentation, that ends up getting 
> installed somewhere in site-packages.. That's probably not where it 
> should go, but there should be a metadata way of saying 'look here for 
> my documentation, don't bother introspecting me'.

This sounds like a good plan. I think we should have a "Packages" 
directory under /Applications/MacPython 2.3 where examples and 
documentation go. Each package gets a folder, and that's where to look 
for everything regarding that package. Maybe even put a symlink to the 
actual module there? (For user installs, we could have something like 
$HOME/MacPython 2.3/Packages maybe?)

 From within PackMan, I think we could also have a simple line saying 
"Install Location: /App.../Mac../Packages/PyObjC/Examples" when the 
user clicks on examples or documentation.

What do you think?

Thanks,

Kevin