[Twisted-Python] Some Win32 comments

Christopher Armstrong carmstro at twistedmatrix.com
Sun Mar 17 21:04:50 EST 2002


On Sun, 2002-03-17 at 20:34, Tyler W. Wilson wrote:
> I was trying to get the Twisted IM client running, and have a few 
> comments related to config issues on Win32. Here they are:
> 
> 1 running 'python setup.py install' copies the twisted folder to the 
> <python>\lib\site-packages folder, which is okay. but if you change to 
> the Twisted<version> folder and do 'python bin\im', it will be using the 
> sources from the original location, NOT the site-packages location.
>  
> 2 similar to the above, if you set PYTHONPATH to point to 
> Twisted<version> folder, as it says to do in the README, the original 
> twisted files will be used, not those copied to the site-packages folder.
>  
> so, given 1 & 2, do we really need to do the setup.py? It should be 
> noted in the README(.win32?) that users should either: 1) set PYTHONPATH 
> to Twisted<version> and NOT run setup.py, and include the full path to 
> im, mktap, etc, or 2) do NOT set PYTHONPATH, run setup.py, and still 
> include the fullpath to the bin folder.

The README doesn't mention setup.py at all; it only mentions that you
should set your PYTHONPATH environment variable.

> i would also suggest that the files in the bin folder have the .py 
> extension, so that on Windows we can associate them to the python 
> interpreter, which would simplify things.

Would it be better to detect if we're on windows and rename all the bin/
scripts to foo.py, or maybe include a set of supplementary .bat files
that just ran 'python bin/foo.py'? I'll implement this either way. (if
we go with the former option, it'll require win32 users to run setup.py,
which is probably better any way)

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                                Chris Armstrong
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