| IDLEfork Installation Notes |
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| IDLEfork requires Python Version 2.2 or later. |
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| There are several distribution files (where xx is the subversion): |
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| IDLEfork-0.9xx.win32.exe |
| This is a Windows installer which will install IDLEfork in |
| ..../site-packages/idleforklib/ and place the idefork startup script |
| at ..../scripts/idlefork. Rename this to idlefork.pyw and |
| point your launcher icons at it. Installation is as idlefork |
| to avoid conflict with the original Python IDLE. |
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| IDLEfork-0.9xx-1.noarch.rpm |
| This is an rpm which is designed to install as idleforklib in the |
| /usr/lib/python2.2 tree created by the Python2 rpm. It requires |
| python2 and python2-tkinter rpms. It installs as idlefork to avoid |
| conflict with Python IDLE. |
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| 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 remains configured to install as IDLE, not IDLEfork. |
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| Unpack in ..../Tools/, cd to the IDLEfork directory created, and |
| <python setup.py install> to install in ....site-packages/idlelib. |
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| 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. |
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| See README.txt for more details on this version of IDLEfork. |
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