Op do, 11-05-2006 te 15:40 -0400, schreef Fred L. Drake, Jr.: > 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.
No, most of them would just use another program that doesn't require them to "program in DOS"... -- Jan Claeys _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
