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Improve Windows and Mac OS-specific instructions for running the 

setup script.  Also added a comment about how it *should* work on Mac OS.
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Greg Ward 2000-09-12 23:55:19 +00:00
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@ -168,8 +168,8 @@ a module distribution using the Distutils is usually one simple command:
python setup.py install
\end{verbatim}
On Unix, you'd run this command from a shell prompt; on Windows, you
have to open a command prompt window and do it there; on Mac~OS ...
\XXX{what the heck do you do on Mac~OS?}.
have to open a command prompt window (``DOS box'') and do it there; on
Mac~OS, things are a tad more complicated (see below).
\subsection{Platform variations}
@ -185,18 +185,35 @@ cd foo-1.0
python setup.py install
\end{verbatim}
On Windows, you'd probably unpack the archive before opening the command
prompt. If you downloaded the archive file to
\file{C:\textbackslash{}Temp}, then it probably unpacked (depending on
your software) into
\file{C:\textbackslash{}Temp\textbackslash{}foo-1.0}; from the command
prompt window, you would then run
On Windows, you'd probably download \file{foo-1.0.zip}. If you
downloaded the archive file to \file{C:\textbackslash{}Temp}, then it
would unpack into \file{C:\textbackslash{}Temp\textbackslash{}foo-1.0};
you can use either a GUI archive manipulator (such as WinZip) or a
command-line tool (such as \program{unzip} or \program{pkunzip}) to
unpack the archive. Then, open a command prompt window (``DOS box''),
and run:
\begin{verbatim}
cd c:\temp\foo-1.0
cd c:\Temp\foo-1.0
python setup.py install
\end{verbatim}
On Mac~OS, ... \XXX{again, how do you run Python scripts on Mac~OS?}
On Mac~OS, you have to go through a bit more effort to supply
command-line arguments to the setup script:
\begin{itemize}
\item hit option-double-click on the script's icon (or option-drop it
onto the Python interpreter's icon)
\item press the ``Set unix-style command line'' button
\item set the ``Keep stdio window open on termination'' if you're
interested in seeing the output of the setup script (which is usually
voluminous and often useful)
\item (??) when the command-line dialog pops up, enter ``install'' (you
can, of course, enter any Distutils command-line as described in this
document or in the ``Distributing Python Modules'' document: just
leave of the initial \code{python setup.py} and you'll be fine)
\end{itemize}
\XXX{this should change: every Distutils setup script will need
command-line arguments for every run (and should probably keep stdout
around), so all this should happen automatically for setup scripts}
\subsection{Splitting the job up}