On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 2:31 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Guido> I guess I wasn't clear -- I don't want there to be a target that > Guido> does what install does today. It would be a mistake to use it in > Guido> 99.99% of cases. IOW > > Guido> install = altinstall > > The install target does three things (ignoring Mac framework installs): > > altinstall > bininstall > maninstall > > The altinstall target is version-specific, so it's fine. The bininstall and > maninstall targets create files which are not obviously tied to a specific > version though. Their actions are complex enough that most people are not > going to want to do them manually though. I still think it worthwhile to > have *some* target in the Makefile which depends on altinstall and does the > bininstall and maninstall steps. Something like "makeprimary"? I don't > know. You still need some way to record all the steps necessary to make > what you're installing "right now" be considered "python".
Let them type "make altinstall bininstall maninstall". -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ 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
