On approximately 1/25/2010 9:27 PM, came the following characters from
the keyboard of David Lyon:
Firstly, it doesn't create create desktop shortcuts - sorry users
need those. Where do the programs go?
So let's say that the .zip file was dropped onto the Desktop or start
menu. It would have an icon, then.
But having a __main__.py file in a zip file is hardly a clear
and obvious way (to outside people) that it is a python
application.
So let's further say that the .zip file was named .py, instead, but was
a .zip internally.
That would seem to go a long ways toward making the facility user
friendly, at least on Windows, which is where your complaint about icons
was based, and the only change to Python would be to recognize that if a
.py contains a .zip signature, then process it the same way as this
mysterious, not mentioned in the What's New .zip execution facility.
Why can't we just be like the rest of the universe and have
one icon type for packages and one icon type for applications.
Double click them and they get filed in the right place.
What platform files things in the right place when you double click them?
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Glenn -- http://nevcal.com/
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