On Oct 2, 2006, at 9:24 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote:
PyObjC, wxPython, Tk, all need to be installed correctly before they canbe used.
On 10.4 Tk is already installed and could be used, it has appearently has issues but an egg frontend could be kept simple enough to work around those.
But that isn't really an issue anyway, the setuptools frontend could, and probably should, be build as a (semi-) standalone application bundle. That way you can include all libraries you want into the application bundle without depending on what the user wants to have installed.
Maybe we could use the wxPython that Apple delivers (do they deliver a usable Tk?), or maybe it could be written in ObjC instead of Python (NO!say it isn't so!) Another option is to make sure that the MacPythoninstaller installs something usable by default -- PyObjC, wxPython, TK,or??? Other thoughts?It's not a great idea to put a front-end on easy_install at this point. It would be an enormous amount of work for very little gain. It's also not at all designed such that it's easy to break what it's doing up into little chunks so that you can properly display status and whatnot from a GUI.
I somewhat agree with this, anyone that want to build a frontend for easy_install should be prepared to work with PJE to enhance setuptools/easy_install to make it easier to write a frontend to setuptools. Writing the actual UI is pretty easy.
Ronald
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