On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 09:23:28AM +0100, Paul Moore wrote: > On 10/4/06, Phillip J. Eby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At 11:12 PM 10/3/2006 +0100, Paul Moore wrote: > > >Also, the automatic pause would annoy me. How would you make it *not* > > >happen if I ran the command from a console window I already had open? > > > > The idea would be to register a separate "easy_install-win.exe" under > > "easy_install" in App Paths. This version would pause after termination, > > while the normal version would not. Since console programs invoked via the > > App Paths mechanism *always* get their own new window, this should work out > > nicely. > > Sadly, not true. The replacement console program 4NT (which I use > pretty much exclusively) uses App Paths to locate executables. So if > you (in effect) alias easy_install to easy_install-win, you'll break > it for 4NT users. And in a way that will confuse the heck out of them, > because it's very subtle (mapping an executable name to a different > executable via App Paths is not normal usage). > > Why not just have the second executable with a simple to type name > (easy_installw, say) and suggest people type *that* in the Run window? > Keep it simple! The main problem to be solved here is how do you put up a "Press enter to close window" prompt when a new console is opened up and not do that when running in an existing console?
We could try to detect that condition. I looks like someone on the Cygwin XFree project mailing list solved that problem in 2003. I don't see this as having actually made it into their source base yet though. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.cygwin.xfree/5967 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.cygwin.xfree/5965 The second message has an UU encoded sample C implementation that could be modified for our purposes. -Chris _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
