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| author | Kurt B. Kaiser <kbk@shore.net> | 2003-01-01 01:14:13 (GMT) |
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| committer | Kurt B. Kaiser <kbk@shore.net> | 2003-01-01 01:14:13 (GMT) |
| commit | 50e9c4ff5590bfe77212093d80b16ee7066a0180 (patch) | |
| tree | c874a74f350bdd4e8b57777a434a387c1c7d541b /Lib/idlelib/INSTALL.txt | |
| parent | 38f11101d863445eba29612178fb7ba7fd424d8c (diff) | |
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More installation info. Bump alpha version.
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diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/INSTALL.txt b/Lib/idlelib/INSTALL.txt index df4a0d9..2f66e0d 100644 --- a/Lib/idlelib/INSTALL.txt +++ b/Lib/idlelib/INSTALL.txt @@ -21,14 +21,18 @@ IDLEfork-0.9xx-1.noarch.rpm IDLEfork-0.9xx.tar.gz This is a distutils sdist (source) tarfile which can be used to make installations on platforms not supported by the above files. - It is configured to install as IDLE, not IDLEfork. + It remains configured to install as IDLE, not IDLEfork. Unpack in ..../Tools/, cd to the IDLEfork directory created, and - <python setup.py install> to install as IDLE. If you don't want to - step on Python IDLE, it is also possible to simply run <python idle.py> - to test in the IDLEfork source directory without installation. In this - case, IDLEfork will not be on your PATH unless you are in the source - directory. + <python setup.py install> to install in ....site-packages/idlelib. + + If you don't want to overwrite Python IDLE, it is also possible to + simply run <python idle.py> to test in the IDLEfork source directory + without making an installation. In this case, IDLE will not be on + your PATH unless you are in the source directory. Also, it is then + advisable to remove any Python IDLE installation by removing + ..../site-packages/idlelib so the two identically named packages don't + conflict. See README.txt for more details on this version of IDLEfork. |