1a54d71550
Mention that .pth files can't be used to override standard modules
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(suggested by Jack Jansen)
2002-11-25 13:56:12 +00:00
3a7f405f5b
Draft a section on modifying Python's path. I'm not sure where
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this section fits best in inst.tex's organization; Fred or someone, feel
free to move it.
2002-11-15 02:52:44 +00:00
572aae32f1
Old change (probably suggested by Jason Tishler) The GNU/Windows compiler is now called MinGW
2002-11-06 14:34:50 +00:00
8612a431b9
Add a missing % to a Windows-style environment variable expression.
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Minor style guide compliance fix.
Several markup fixes.
2002-10-31 20:46:20 +00:00
ddc369a7d2
Fix markup for tilde in URL.
2002-10-18 16:33:30 +00:00
0cc8c37357
Move really open-ended XXX items into comments
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Remove 1.5.2 reference: who cares?
2002-05-24 17:06:17 +00:00
1624bc051f
Move 'Tips and Tricks' to be the last section
2002-05-07 21:03:45 +00:00
3b98dc16e9
Add section on Setup file
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Updates for 2.2
Remove references to Makefile.pre.in build method
2002-05-07 21:02:35 +00:00
22d35a7337
[Bug #459270 ] Fix incorrect filename for system-wide config file
2001-12-06 16:34:53 +00:00
74f1a563ff
Fix a URL (closing SF patch #462195 ).
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Cleaned up a bunch of XXX comments containing links to additional
information, replacing them with proper references.
Replaced "MacOS" with "Mac OS", since that's what the style guide says.
2001-09-25 15:12:41 +00:00
3ae5726625
Updated infomation about libraries for alternate compilers on Windows.
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This closes SF patch #459441 .
2001-09-11 15:10:42 +00:00
17f690f96b
Minor changes to match the style guide.
2001-07-14 02:14:42 +00:00
b2d1006272
Update the description of how to start an interpreter and determine the
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installation prefix and exec_prefix for Windows.
2001-07-06 22:46:52 +00:00
c054c75582
Work around the conversion of ">>" and "<<" to guillemets. Reported by Ping.
2001-04-13 17:25:38 +00:00
42119e49a9
Fix a few minor markup nits.
2001-03-03 19:47:24 +00:00
6be838a0c0
Rene Liebscher <R.Liebscher@gmx.de>:
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Added information on using non-Microsoft compilers on Windows.
[Minor edits for markup consistency. --FLD]
2001-03-03 19:18:01 +00:00
a9a83e9ee3
Comment out section titles for sections that have not been written yet;
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there is no need to clutter a reader's life with those useless things.
Suppress the "Contents" page for HTML; it is not needed for small documents
in the online environment since LaTeX2HTML generates lots of tables of links
anyway.
Various markup consistency nits.
2001-03-01 18:37:52 +00:00
30537da0ec
Fix typo
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Makefile.pre.in was added in 1.4
2001-02-17 00:42:56 +00:00
0bbaa515a1
Remove evil "sec:" prefix from some \label markups; this is bad for
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filenames on Windows (& Mac?) platforms.
2001-01-24 16:39:35 +00:00
4532dc1bd9
Do not require packages that are not needed.
2000-10-26 21:13:22 +00:00
eff9a87fcc
Lots of small markup adjustments for consistency with the rest of the
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documentation.
2000-10-26 16:41:03 +00:00
7ef2ba796b
Minor tweaks to catch up with the current code in a few spots.
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Wrote the "Distutils Configuration Files" section.
2000-10-22 01:40:08 +00:00
0bc5953e83
Added skeletal "Building Extensions: Tips and Tricks" section. This
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is where all the FAQs about extension-building will be answered.
2000-09-30 21:06:40 +00:00
15f5e2aa0f
Remove a ?? in the description of Mac OS support.
2000-09-26 02:54:43 +00:00
8c56259a3d
Fix install directories on Mac OS (now that the "install" command
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does the right thing).
2000-09-13 00:12:37 +00:00
1ed49eeb29
Changed/added a bunch of section labels so HTML files will be named nicely.
2000-09-13 00:00:58 +00:00
e24f05e25b
Improve Windows and Mac OS-specific instructions for running the
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setup script. Also added a comment about how it *should* work on Mac OS.
2000-09-12 23:55:19 +00:00
14deaaec12
Minor tweaks to get rid of some '\XXX' remarks.
2000-09-11 00:33:15 +00:00
e3cca26627
Added abstract.
2000-08-31 16:36:31 +00:00
01df453f16
Update Python version numbers from 1.6 to 2.0 where appropriate.
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Make some references between the distutils documents hyperlinks using
the \citetitle markup.
2000-06-30 03:36:41 +00:00
19c67f83ad
Fixed a grab-bag of typos spotted by Detlef Lannert.
2000-06-24 01:33:16 +00:00
3e7b133c95
Added concrete example of when separate build and install might be
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useful (suggested by Moshe Zadka).
2000-05-30 03:00:43 +00:00
e78298a6bd
Stripped leading 'sec:' from all section labels -- generates bad filenames,
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bad link URLs in HTML, etc.
2000-04-28 17:12:24 +00:00
4eaa3bfed0
Reverted '\var' in the "standard installation location" table to '\filevar'.
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Reformatted wide paragraphs.
2000-04-19 22:44:25 +00:00
4756e5fb1c
Changed '\tilde' and '\bslash' to the standard '\textasciitilde' and
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'\textbackslash'.
2000-04-19 22:40:12 +00:00
a021acacfb
Changed '\option' to '\longprogramopt' wherever it referred to a command-line
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option.
2000-04-19 22:34:11 +00:00
502d2b4615
Added note about usual default prefix under Linux (thanks to Peter Funk
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for the idea).
2000-04-12 14:20:15 +00:00
d5faa7ea08
Changed the table of per-platform default installation locations to be
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more consistent with the rest of the Python docs.
2000-04-12 01:42:19 +00:00
c392caa390
Spewed a bunch more verbiage.
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Lots of scattered wording changes.
2000-04-11 02:00:26 +00:00
6002ffc38c
Wrote the introduction (including several subsections).
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Started writing the "Standard Build and Install" section.
2000-04-09 20:54:50 +00:00
7593eb3267
Extracted a bunch of Distutils-specific commands and macros to distutils.sty
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(also needed by inst.tex).
2000-04-09 03:59:15 +00:00
8e14f05ae6
Fix small errors in description of Mac, Windows installation schemes.
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Added comment about "--help" (no value) not working.
2000-03-22 01:00:23 +00:00
295765630a
Third attempt at documenting an installation scheme; this one feels like
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it could work--reasonably short and straightforward to document, but
flexible enough that it will be able to handle more than just modules
and extensions in the future.
2000-03-18 15:11:50 +00:00
169f91b808
[from 2000-02-25] Second attempt at describing an installation scheme; this is
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the simplified scheme that Guido proposed. Also already-obsolete,
and saved only for posterity.
2000-03-10 01:57:51 +00:00
7c1e5f65e3
[from 2000-02-23] Description of the baroque and already-obsolete
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installation scheme that Fred Drake and I cooked up. Only saved for
posterity.
2000-03-10 01:56:58 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
Fred Drake
Greg Ward