Commit Graph

26 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Fred Drake
4532dc1bd9 Do not require packages that are not needed. 2000-10-26 21:13:22 +00:00
Fred Drake
eff9a87fcc Lots of small markup adjustments for consistency with the rest of the
documentation.
2000-10-26 16:41:03 +00:00
Greg Ward
7ef2ba796b Minor tweaks to catch up with the current code in a few spots.
Wrote the "Distutils Configuration Files" section.
2000-10-22 01:40:08 +00:00
Greg Ward
0bc5953e83 Added skeletal "Building Extensions: Tips and Tricks" section. This
is where all the FAQs about extension-building will be answered.
2000-09-30 21:06:40 +00:00
Greg Ward
15f5e2aa0f Remove a ?? in the description of Mac OS support. 2000-09-26 02:54:43 +00:00
Greg Ward
8c56259a3d Fix install directories on Mac OS (now that the "install" command
does the right thing).
2000-09-13 00:12:37 +00:00
Greg Ward
1ed49eeb29 Changed/added a bunch of section labels so HTML files will be named nicely. 2000-09-13 00:00:58 +00:00
Greg Ward
e24f05e25b Improve Windows and Mac OS-specific instructions for running the
setup script.  Also added a comment about how it *should* work on Mac OS.
2000-09-12 23:55:19 +00:00
Greg Ward
14deaaec12 Minor tweaks to get rid of some '\XXX' remarks. 2000-09-11 00:33:15 +00:00
Greg Ward
e3cca26627 Added abstract. 2000-08-31 16:36:31 +00:00
Fred Drake
01df453f16 Update Python version numbers from 1.6 to 2.0 where appropriate.
Make some references between the distutils documents hyperlinks using
the \citetitle markup.
2000-06-30 03:36:41 +00:00
Greg Ward
19c67f83ad Fixed a grab-bag of typos spotted by Detlef Lannert. 2000-06-24 01:33:16 +00:00
Greg Ward
3e7b133c95 Added concrete example of when separate build and install might be
useful (suggested by Moshe Zadka).
2000-05-30 03:00:43 +00:00
Greg Ward
e78298a6bd Stripped leading 'sec:' from all section labels -- generates bad filenames,
bad link URLs in HTML, etc.
2000-04-28 17:12:24 +00:00
Greg Ward
4eaa3bfed0 Reverted '\var' in the "standard installation location" table to '\filevar'.
Reformatted wide paragraphs.
2000-04-19 22:44:25 +00:00
Greg Ward
4756e5fb1c Changed '\tilde' and '\bslash' to the standard '\textasciitilde' and
'\textbackslash'.
2000-04-19 22:40:12 +00:00
Greg Ward
a021acacfb Changed '\option' to '\longprogramopt' wherever it referred to a command-line
option.
2000-04-19 22:34:11 +00:00
Greg Ward
502d2b4615 Added note about usual default prefix under Linux (thanks to Peter Funk
for the idea).
2000-04-12 14:20:15 +00:00
Greg Ward
d5faa7ea08 Changed the table of per-platform default installation locations to be
more consistent with the rest of the Python docs.
2000-04-12 01:42:19 +00:00
Greg Ward
c392caa390 Spewed a bunch more verbiage.
Lots of scattered wording changes.
2000-04-11 02:00:26 +00:00
Greg Ward
6002ffc38c Wrote the introduction (including several subsections).
Started writing the "Standard Build and Install" section.
2000-04-09 20:54:50 +00:00
Greg Ward
7593eb3267 Extracted a bunch of Distutils-specific commands and macros to distutils.sty
(also needed by inst.tex).
2000-04-09 03:59:15 +00:00
Greg Ward
8e14f05ae6 Fix small errors in description of Mac, Windows installation schemes.
Added comment about "--help" (no value) not working.
2000-03-22 01:00:23 +00:00
Greg Ward
295765630a Third attempt at documenting an installation scheme; this one feels like
it could work--reasonably short and straightforward to document, but
flexible enough that it will be able to handle more than just modules
and extensions in the future.
2000-03-18 15:11:50 +00:00
Greg Ward
169f91b808 [from 2000-02-25] Second attempt at describing an installation scheme; this is
the simplified scheme that Guido proposed.  Also already-obsolete,
and saved only for posterity.
2000-03-10 01:57:51 +00:00
Greg Ward
7c1e5f65e3 [from 2000-02-23] Description of the baroque and already-obsolete
installation scheme that Fred Drake and I cooked up.  Only saved for
posterity.
2000-03-10 01:56:58 +00:00