[tahoe-dev] Installation on Mac

[Daira Hopwood]

On 18/07/13 14:34, Greg Troxel wrote:
> Daira Hopwood <davidsarah at leastauthority.com> writes:
> 
>> Alias 'really-install-without-dependencies' to zetuptoolz' "install"
>> command in setup.cfg. Then make 'python setup.py install' do nothing
>> except print a message similar to the following (replacing "bin/tahoe"
>> with "bin\tahoe" if on Windows):
> 
> Please don't mess up the distribution for packaging systems by changing
> to non-standard interfaces.  The right thing to do for a program is
> first to install all dependencies, and then to build and install the
> program.  python seems to have this halfway scheme which is troublesome,
> but that should be addressed in instructions to people who want to build
> tahoe from source but who at the same time do not have enough python
> development experience to do so correctly.

The "standard interface" for 'python setup.py install' does not do what
I or you or anyone else wants it to do.

-- 
Daira Hopwood ⚥

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