On 08 September 2000, I said:
> I would be happy to write a setup script that makes it easy to install
> Tools/idle as a "third-party" module distribution, complete with a
> launch script, if there's interest. Oh hell, maybe I'll do it
> anyways... just howl if you don't think I should check it in.
OK, as threatened, I've written a setup script for IDLE. (Specifically,
the version in Tools/idle in the Python 1.6 and 2.0 source
distributions.) This installs IDLE into a pacakge "idle", which means
that the imports in idle.py have to change. Rather than change idle.py,
I wrote a new script just called "idle"; this would replace idle.py and
be installed in <prefix>/bin (on Unix -- I think scripts installed by
the Distutils go to <prefix>/Scripts on Windows, which was a largely
arbitrary choice).
Anyways, here's the setup script:
#!/usr/bin/env python
import os
from distutils.core import setup
from distutils.command.install_data import install_data
class IDLE_install_data (install_data):
def finalize_options (self):
if self.install_dir is None:
install_lib = self.get_finalized_command('install_lib')
self.install_dir = os.path.join(install_lib.install_dir, "idle")
setup(name = "IDLE",
version = "0.6",
author = "Guido van Rossum",
author_email = "guido@python.org",
cmdclass = {'install_data': IDLE_install_data},
packages = ['idle'],
package_dir = {'idle': ''},
scripts = ['idle'],
data_files = ['config.txt', 'config-unix.txt', 'config-win.txt'])
And the changes I suggest to make IDLE smoothly installable:
* remove idle.py
* add this setup.py and idle (which is just idle.py with the imports
changed)
* add some instructions on how to install and run IDLE somewhere
I just checked the CVS repository for the IDLE fork, and don't see a
setup.py there either -- so presumably the forked IDLE could benefit
from this as well (hence the cc: idle-dev@python.org).
Greg
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