[Zope-Coders] Heads up - setup.py

[Matt Behrens]

On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 10:47:57AM -0400, Chris McDonough wrote:

> I dont know if this is a popular position, why not just a top-level
> Makefile, and maybe even a "configure" script (not
> autoconf-produced) that would make installing Zope on UNIX more like
> installing other UNIX programs (as opposed to other Python
> programs).  As far as I can tell from comments to the Zope Book,
> most of the people coming to Zope aren't as familiar with Python
> conventions as they are UNIX conventions.
> 
> The top-level Makefile could of course just turn around and call
> "setup.py build" and "setup.py install".

Yes, this is covered in the installer branch, but it deals with a
lot of the issues like "what exactly does 'install' mean" :-)