[tahoe-dev] Installation on Mac

[Greg Troxel]

"Zooko O'Whielacronx" <zookog at gmail.com> writes:

> Correct: "python setup.py install" will not work without sudo or root
> privileges. However, "python setup.py build" *will* work without sudo
> or root privileges. The instructions ¹ do not instruct the user to run
> "python setup.py install"!
>
> However, users often run "python setup.py install" even though the
> instructions don't say to, and they often put "sudo" before "python
> setup.py build" even though the instructions don't say to. So, I'm
> kind of despairing of if there is any way to instruct users in how to
> build and use a Python program from source…

Users should be told to use packages from a packaging system...
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