[tahoe-dev] change install.html to use setup.py instead of Make?

[zooko]

On Sep 17, 2008, at 12:48 PM, Brian Warner wrote:
>
>     1.  g++ >= v3.3, and the standard development headers and  
> libraries --

Okay.

> Run 'python setup.py build_tahoe' to build and to install the tahoe
> executable into a subdirectory of the current directory named bin.  
> If the
> command encounters errors (see #455 for examples), re-run it up to  
> three
> times to get a successful build.

Ugh.  I would rather keep the install.html as it is, requiring GNU  
make, than add this instruction, but on the other hand I would love  
to remove the manual dependency on GNU make, and if we do it this way  
this will perhaps encourage someone to help us fix #455, or encourage  
us to fix it ourselves.

Therefore, I am ambivalent on this (in python-dev terms, I would have  
to say that I am +/-1 on this :-)) and I would like to leave it up to  
you how to do this for the 1.3.0 release.

Thanks!

Regards,

Zooko
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