[SciPy-dev] ipython in enthon

[Joe Cooper]

Fernando Perez wrote:

> You might find some of this useful if you need to build a true 
> installer.  If you get this to work, let me know what changes you made 
> and I'll toss them into CVS.

Hey Fernando,

I'm down to iPython now as the last remaining piece of the puzzle before 
I roll up a new test installer of Enthon.

Here's the problems I've run into:

setup.py doesn't respect prefix (at least on Windows--I haven't built an 
RPM on Linux yet to find out how it behaves elsewhere), so it dumps 
everything into my system default Python.  Not ideal for packaging.

The pythonwin stuff needs to be able to be disabled from the command 
line.  It installs a bunch of bits on the local machine, which is 
destructive to the build environment.  We can setup the shortcuts and 
such in the enthon installation routines.

It hangs at the build phase, for some unknown reason, seemingly at or 
near the end, because lots of stuff does actually get built.  I'll have 
to dig a bit to see what's happening there.  It could be related to the 
win32all installation, as it's installer freaked out in a weird way as 
well, and refused to overwrite a file because python was running 
(clearly--python was doing the install!).

So, all of the hard work you've done on making it install nicely on 
Windows is getting in the way of packaging it for Windows.  Ideally, I'd 
like a nice simple setup.py that builds everything and then copies the 
right bits into the specified prefix and nothing else.  ;-)

I'm nearly illiterate when it comes to distutils, though I can usually 
stumble through when I have to, so I'll see what I can do to make this 
possible...but I wouldn't bet on anything useful coming from the effort.