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authorÉric Araujo <merwok@netwok.org>2011-06-07 23:11:36 (GMT)
committerÉric Araujo <merwok@netwok.org>2011-06-07 23:11:36 (GMT)
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Add examples that work on Windows to distutils docs (#1626300)
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@@ -96,10 +96,16 @@ in the name of the downloaded archive, e.g. :file:`foo-1.0.tar.gz` or
directory: :file:`foo-1.0` or :file:`widget-0.9.7`. Additionally, the
distribution will contain a setup script :file:`setup.py`, and a file named
:file:`README.txt` or possibly just :file:`README`, which should explain that
-building and installing the module distribution is a simple matter of running ::
+building and installing the module distribution is a simple matter of running
+one command from a terminal::
python setup.py install
+For Windows, this command should be run from a command prompt windows ("DOS
+box")::
+
+ setup.py install
+
If all these things are true, then you already know how to build and install the
modules you've just downloaded: Run the command above. Unless you need to
install things in a non-standard way or customize the build process, you don't
@@ -113,14 +119,11 @@ Standard Build and Install
==========================
As described in section :ref:`inst-new-standard`, building and installing a module
-distribution using the Distutils is usually one simple command::
+distribution using the Distutils is usually one simple command to run from a
+terminal::
python setup.py install
-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 Mac OS X, you open
-a :command:`Terminal` window to get a shell prompt.
-
.. _inst-platform-variations: