[Pythonmac-SIG] Why Do I Explicitly Need MacPython

[has]

Charles Hartman wrote:

>> Using easy_install is quite easy -- you type "easy_install
>> WhatYouNeed" and press return. That's it. Users currently need some
>> familiarity with Terminal in order to get anything done with Python
>> anyway.
>
> But hasn't there been real progress toward making that not true?  
> And isn't that a good thing? Can't Python be an OSX programming  
> enrivonment rather than (as well as) a Darwin one?
>
> I suppose the simple way would be a tiny Applescript drag-and-drop  
> that just called easy_install . . .

I already wrote a quick-n-dirty Studio frontend to distutils;  
wouldn't be hard to add egg support to that:

http://freespace.virgin.net/hamish.sanderson/Distutils-GUI-1.2.1.dmg.gz

Lacks a little polish, mind you - it'd present better if it was an  
all-in-one solution, rather than firing up Terminal to run distutils  
and display the installation log.

HTH

has
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