Binary Distributions [Was: problem compiling python's readline on linux ]

Dan Connolly (connolly@ulua.hal.com)
23 Sep 1994 23:20:36 GMT

In article <9409231508.AA13440=guido@voorn.cwi.nl> Guido.van.Rossum@cwi.nl writes:

By the way, maybe it's about time to make binary versions of Python
for as many UNIX platforms as possible available? (The dead-easy
binary installation was one of the factors contributing to Mosaic's
success...) I can build versions for SGI IRIX 4 and 5, for SunOS
4.1.3 and for Solaris 2.3. Who can contribute binaries for other
platforms?

Linux.

By the way... I saw an _excellent_ way to distribute net software from
the guys at EIT. It's their webmaster's starter kit. You point your
forms-capable WWW browser at it, follow the instructions, and in 10
minutes, you end up with a working web server on your machine.

I'd love to see more software delivered this way. I'm willing to
do a certain amount of work to get python to install this way.

Check it out:

http://wsk.eit.com/wsk/doc/

Dan

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