On Thursday 11 May 2006 15:06, Jan Claeys wrote: > Why would ordinary end-users of an application written in Python need > distutils? They will get their application as a py2exe executable (or > similar) on Windows, as a distro package on linux and on Mac OS X there > is py2app IIRC. And even if they had distutils installed, most of them > won't know how to use it.
If there's no distro package (not unusual), they'd download the source package and need to run "python setup.py install". They need both Python and distutils in that case. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at acm.org> _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
