[Tutor] Query re: IDLE & Slackware 9.0

[Patrick J. Volkerding]

On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Rob McGee wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 08:33:42PM -0400, Todd Stephens wrote:
> > > I am wanting to use Idle on Slackware 9.0 but cannot seem to call it up
> > > using the command line, and there aren't any menu items for it. Nor can I
> > > seem to find it buried within the Python directory. I was under the
> >
> > Looks to me like the default python installation in Slack 9 leaves it out.  A
> > quick 'locate idle' turns up only the following:
> >
> > /usr/doc/python-2.2.2/html/lib/idle.html
> >
> > I can't find anything in /usr/lib/python2.2/ either.
>
> Correct. I found this issue in Slackware 8.0 too, but I forgot to ask
> Pat (Slackware maintainer) about it. Now that you've reminded me, I'm
> CC'ing this to him.
>
> Pat, the "Tools" directory in the top-level of the Python source tarball
> contains some goodies which would be nice to have ... they're not copied
> over in the "make install".

Hi all,

I'll be adding a python-tools package (and python-demo package, while I'm
at it) to slackware-current sometime soon.  Thanks for cueing me in on
this, Rob!  (especially since you caught this before I put up 2.2.3
packages :-)

Take care,

Pat