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diff --git a/Doc/install/index.rst b/Doc/install/index.rst index 1bfc703..c830c8d 100644 --- a/Doc/install/index.rst +++ b/Doc/install/index.rst @@ -10,18 +10,17 @@ :Release: |version| :Date: |today| -.. % TODO: -.. % Fill in XXX comments - -.. % The audience for this document includes people who don't know anything -.. % about Python and aren't about to learn the language just in order to -.. % install and maintain it for their users, i.e. system administrators. -.. % Thus, I have to be sure to explain the basics at some point: -.. % sys.path and PYTHONPATH at least. Should probably give pointers to -.. % other docs on "import site", PYTHONSTARTUP, PYTHONHOME, etc. -.. % -.. % Finally, it might be useful to include all the material from my "Care -.. % and Feeding of a Python Installation" talk in here somewhere. Yow! +.. TODO: Fill in XXX comments + +.. The audience for this document includes people who don't know anything + about Python and aren't about to learn the language just in order to + install and maintain it for their users, i.e. system administrators. + Thus, I have to be sure to explain the basics at some point: + sys.path and PYTHONPATH at least. Should probably give pointers to + other docs on "import site", PYTHONSTARTUP, PYTHONHOME, etc. + + Finally, it might be useful to include all the material from my "Care + and Feeding of a Python Installation" talk in here somewhere. Yow! .. topic:: Abstract @@ -565,11 +564,11 @@ environment variables, such as Mac OS 9, the configuration variables supplied by the Distutils are the only ones you can use.) See section :ref:`inst-config-files` for details. -.. % XXX need some Windows examples---when would custom -.. % installation schemes be needed on those platforms? +.. XXX need some Windows examples---when would custom installation schemes be + needed on those platforms? -.. % XXX I'm not sure where this section should go. +.. XXX I'm not sure where this section should go. .. _inst-search-path: @@ -881,8 +880,8 @@ Microsoft Visual C++, which uses COFF as the object file format.) For this reason you have to convert Python's library :file:`python25.lib` into the Borland format. You can do this as follows: -.. % Should we mention that users have to create cfg-files for the compiler? -.. % see also http://community.borland.com/article/0,1410,21205,00.html +.. Should we mention that users have to create cfg-files for the compiler? +.. see also http://community.borland.com/article/0,1410,21205,00.html :: @@ -940,8 +939,8 @@ a good program for this task at http://starship.python.net/crew/kernr/mingw32/Notes.html, see at PExports 0.42h there.) -.. % I don't understand what the next line means. --amk -.. % (inclusive the references on data structures.) +.. I don't understand what the next line means. --amk +.. (inclusive the references on data structures.) :: |