[Pythonmac-SIG] 2.3b1 installer options

Kevin Ollivier kevino@tulane.edu
Fri, 2 May 2003 14:22:47 -0700


On Friday, May 2, 2003, at 01:57 PM, Jack Jansen wrote:

>
> On vrijdag, mei 2, 2003, at 19:56 Europe/Amsterdam, Bugbee, Larry 
> wrote:
>
>> Jack,
>>
>> In addition to 'Demos' and 'Tools', shouldn't we add 'Doc'?
>
> Hmm, hmm. Doc you can already install via PackageManager.
>
> And Just wrote:
>> Speaking of options, I'd like to see an option to specify where the 
>> apps
>> are installed. Don't know if/how that's possible, though.
>
> I'm thinking now that the best option may be to have a (small) number
> of installers, similar to what the Tcl/Tk folks do:
>
> 1. Minimal system-wide install. This is basically the installer we 
> have now.
> Doc, Demos, Tools and other stuff can be installed through 
> PackageManager.
> 2. Batteries Included system-wide install. Same as 1, but with at least
> Doc, Demos, Tools and a selected number of addons included. For the
> addons I would think of PyObjC, readline, Tkinter (because people want 
> it),
> but I'm open to suggestions.

Since you said you were interested in suggestions, what about 
wxPython...? ;-)

Kevin