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author | Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> | 2001-03-01 18:37:52 (GMT) |
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committer | Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> | 2001-03-01 18:37:52 (GMT) |
commit | a9a83e9ee3cf46d713bb602fdc536f4f3ff6ad97 (patch) | |
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Comment out section titles for sections that have not been written yet;
there is no need to clutter a reader's life with those useless things.
Suppress the "Contents" page for HTML; it is not needed for small documents
in the online environment since LaTeX2HTML generates lots of tables of links
anyway.
Various markup consistency nits.
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1 files changed, 59 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/inst/inst.tex b/Doc/inst/inst.tex index 88c1551..7d226a1 100644 --- a/Doc/inst/inst.tex +++ b/Doc/inst/inst.tex @@ -41,7 +41,14 @@ %Abstract this! %\end{abstract} + +% The ugly "%begin{latexonly}" pseudo-environment supresses the table +% of contents for HTML generation. +% +%begin{latexonly} \tableofcontents +%end{latexonly} + \section{Introduction} \label{intro} @@ -113,6 +120,7 @@ will unpack into a similarly-named directory: \file{foo-1.0} or setup script \file{setup.py}, and a \file{README.txt} (or possibly \file{README}), which should explain that building and installing the module distribution is a simple matter of running + \begin{verbatim} python setup.py install \end{verbatim} @@ -162,9 +170,11 @@ section~\ref{pre-distutils}. As described in section~\ref{new-standard}, building and installing a module distribution using the Distutils is usually one simple command: + \begin{verbatim} python setup.py install \end{verbatim} + On \UNIX, you'd run this command from a shell prompt; on Windows, you have to open a command prompt window (``DOS box'') and do it there; on MacOS, things are a tad more complicated (see below). @@ -178,6 +188,7 @@ directory, i.e. the top-level subdirectory that the module source distribution unpacks into. For example, if you've just downloaded a module source distribution \file{foo-1.0.tar.gz} onto a \UNIX{} system, the normal thing to do is: + \begin{verbatim} gunzip -c foo-1.0.tar.gz | tar xf - # unpacks into directory foo-1.0 cd foo-1.0 @@ -191,6 +202,7 @@ you can use either a GUI archive manipulator (such as WinZip) or a command-line tool (such as \program{unzip} or \program{pkunzip}) to unpack the archive. Then, open a command prompt window (``DOS box''), and run: + \begin{verbatim} cd c:\Temp\foo-1.0 python setup.py install @@ -230,10 +242,12 @@ yourself, with super-user privileges). For example, you can build everything in one step, and then install everything in a second step, by invoking the setup script twice: + \begin{verbatim} python setup.py build python setup.py install \end{verbatim} + (If you do this, you will notice that running the \command{install} command first runs the \command{build} command, which---in this case---quickly notices that it has nothing to do, since everything in @@ -255,20 +269,24 @@ the files to install into a \emph{build directory}. By default, this is concerned with speed, or want to keep the source tree pristine, you can change the build directory with the \longprogramopt{build-base} option. For example: + \begin{verbatim} python setup.py build --build-base=/tmp/pybuild/foo-1.0 \end{verbatim} + (Or you could do this permanently with a directive in your system or personal Distutils configuration file; see section~\ref{config-files}.) Normally, this isn't necessary. The default layout for the build tree is as follows: + \begin{verbatim} --- build/ --- lib/ or --- build/ --- lib.<plat>/ temp.<plat>/ \end{verbatim} + where \code{<plat>} expands to a brief description of the current OS/hardware platform and Python version. The first form, with just a \file{lib} directory, is used for ``pure module distributions''---that @@ -406,8 +424,8 @@ build. Things to talk about: \end{itemize} -\subsection{Tweaking compiler/linker flags} -\label{tweak-flags} +%\subsection{Tweaking compiler/linker flags} +%\label{tweak-flags} \subsection{Using non-Microsoft compilers on Windows} @@ -450,12 +468,15 @@ convenient and commonly useful ``home scheme'' first. The idea behind the ``home scheme'' is that you build and maintain a personal stash of Python modules, probably under your home directory. Installing a new module distribution is as simple as + \begin{verbatim} python setup.py install --home=<dir> \end{verbatim} + where you can supply any directory you like for the \longprogramopt{home} option. Lazy typists can just type a tilde (\code{\textasciitilde}); the \command{install} command will expand this to your home directory: + \begin{verbatim} python setup.py install --home=~ \end{verbatim} @@ -486,6 +507,7 @@ rather than a local add-on. However, if you are installing Python modules from source, you probably want them to go in \file{/usr/local/lib/python1.\filevar{X}} rather than \file{/usr/lib/python1.\filevar{X}}. This can be done with + \begin{verbatim} /usr/bin/python setup.py install --prefix=/usr/local \end{verbatim} @@ -497,6 +519,7 @@ might search for modules in \file{/usr/local/lib/python1.\filevar{X}}, but those modules would have to be installed to, say, \file{/mnt/\filevar{@server}/export/lib/python1.\filevar{X}}. This could be done with + \begin{verbatim} /usr/local/bin/python setup.py install --prefix=/mnt/@server/export \end{verbatim} @@ -548,9 +571,11 @@ the standard Python installation under Windows is simpler than that under \UNIX, there's no point in having separate \longprogramopt{prefix} and \longprogramopt{home} options. Just use the \longprogramopt{prefix} option to specify a base directory, e.g. + \begin{verbatim} python setup.py install --prefix="\Temp\Python" \end{verbatim} + to install modules to the \file{\textbackslash{}Temp} directory on the current drive. @@ -606,6 +631,7 @@ As you might expect, you can override this directory with the \longprogramopt{install-scripts} option; in this case, it makes most sense to supply a relative path, which will be interpreted relative to the installation base directory (your home directory, in this case): + \begin{verbatim} python setup.py install --home=~ --install-scripts=scripts \end{verbatim} @@ -615,9 +641,11 @@ installed with a prefix of \file{/usr/local/python}, so under a standard installation scripts will wind up in \file{/usr/local/python/bin}. If you want them in \file{/usr/local/bin} instead, you would supply this absolute directory for the \longprogramopt{install-scripts} option: + \begin{verbatim} python setup.py install --install-scripts=/usr/local/bin \end{verbatim} + (This performs an installation using the ``prefix scheme,'' where the prefix is whatever your Python interpreter was installed with--- \file{/usr/local/python} in this case.) @@ -628,9 +656,11 @@ live in a subdirectory of \filevar{prefix}, rather than right in script installation directory---you just have to remember that there are two types of modules to worry about, pure modules and non-pure modules (i.e., modules from a non-pure distribution). For example: + \begin{verbatim} python setup.py install --install-purelib=Site --install-platlib=Site \end{verbatim} + The specified installation directories are relative to \filevar{prefix}. Of course, you also have to ensure that these directories are in Python's module search path, e.g. by putting a \file{.pth} file in @@ -644,6 +674,7 @@ maintain all Python module-related files under \file{python} in your home directory, and you want a separate directory for each platform that you use your home directory from, you might define the following installation scheme: + \begin{verbatim} python setup.py install --home=~ \ --install-purelib=python/lib \ @@ -651,7 +682,10 @@ python setup.py install --home=~ \ --install-scripts=python/scripts --install-data=python/data \end{verbatim} +% $ % -- bow to font-lock + or, equivalently, + \begin{verbatim} python setup.py install --home=~/python \ --install-purelib=lib \ @@ -659,6 +693,8 @@ python setup.py install --home=~/python \ --install-scripts=scripts --install-data=data \end{verbatim} +% $ % -- bow to font-lock + \code{\$PLAT} is not (necessarily) an environment variable---it will be expanded by the Distutils as it parses your command line options (just as it does when parsing your configuration file(s)). @@ -667,6 +703,7 @@ Obviously, specifying the entire installation scheme every time you install a new module distribution would be very tedious. Thus, you can put these options into your Distutils config file (see section~\ref{config-files}): + \begin{verbatim} [install] install-base=$HOME @@ -675,7 +712,9 @@ install-platlib=python/lib.$PLAT install-scripts=python/scripts install-data=python/data \end{verbatim} + or, equivalently, + \begin{verbatim} [install] install-base=$HOME/python @@ -684,11 +723,14 @@ install-platlib=lib.$PLAT install-scripts=scripts install-data=data \end{verbatim} + Note that these two are \emph{not} equivalent if you supply a different installation base directory when you run the setup script. For example, + \begin{verbatim} python setup.py --install-base=/tmp \end{verbatim} + would install pure modules to \filevar{/tmp/python/lib} in the first case, and to \filevar{/tmp/lib} in the second case. (For the second case, you probably want to supply an installation base of @@ -797,6 +839,7 @@ like \code{option=value}. For example, the following is a complete config file that just forces all commands to run quietly by default: + \begin{verbatim} [global] verbose=0 @@ -812,15 +855,19 @@ module distribution, it affects only that distribution. You could override the default ``build base'' directory and make the \command{build*} commands always forcibly rebuild all files with the following: + \begin{verbatim} [build] build-base=blib force=1 \end{verbatim} + which corresponds to the command-line arguments + \begin{verbatim} python setup.py build --build-base=blib --force \end{verbatim} + except that including the \command{build} command on the command-line means that command will be run. Including a particular command in config files has no such implication; it only means that if the command @@ -830,29 +877,32 @@ the config file.) You can find out the complete list of options for any command using the \longprogramopt{help} option, e.g.: + \begin{verbatim} python setup.py build --help \end{verbatim} + and you can find out the complete list of global options by using \longprogramopt{help} without a command: + \begin{verbatim} python setup.py --help \end{verbatim} + See also the ``Reference'' section of the ``Distributing Python Modules'' manual. -\section{Pre-Distutils Conventions} -\label{pre-distutils} - +%\section{Pre-Distutils Conventions} +%\label{pre-distutils} -\subsection{The Makefile.pre.in file} -\label{makefile-pre-in} +%\subsection{The Makefile.pre.in file} +%\label{makefile-pre-in} -\subsection{Installing modules manually} -\label{manual-install} +%\subsection{Installing modules manually} +%\label{manual-install} \end{document} |