| Kurt B. Kaiser | f5934dd | 2002-12-31 17:56:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | IDLEfork Installation Notes |
| 2 | =========================== |
| Steven M. Gava | 88ff736 | 2001-07-21 09:50:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 3 | |
| Kurt B. Kaiser | f5934dd | 2002-12-31 17:56:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 4 | IDLEfork requires Python Version 2.2 or later. |
| Steven M. Gava | 88ff736 | 2001-07-21 09:50:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 5 | |
| Kurt B. Kaiser | f5934dd | 2002-12-31 17:56:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 6 | There are several distribution files (where xx is the subversion): |
| Steven M. Gava | 88ff736 | 2001-07-21 09:50:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 7 | |
| Kurt B. Kaiser | f5934dd | 2002-12-31 17:56:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 8 | IDLEfork-0.9xx.win32.exe |
| 9 | This is a Windows installer which will install IDLEfork in |
| 10 | ..../site-packages/idleforklib/ and place the idefork startup script |
| 11 | at ..../scripts/idlefork. Rename this to idlefork.pyw and |
| 12 | point your launcher icons at it. Installation is as idlefork |
| 13 | to avoid conflict with the original Python IDLE. |
| 14 | |
| 15 | IDLEfork-0.9xx-1.noarch.rpm |
| 16 | This is an rpm which is designed to install as idleforklib in the |
| 17 | /usr/lib/python2.2 tree created by the Python2 rpm. It requires |
| 18 | python2 and python2-tkinter rpms. It installs as idlefork to avoid |
| 19 | conflict with Python IDLE. |
| 20 | |
| Kurt B. Kaiser | 7e17289 | 2003-01-27 02:40:20 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 21 | The Python2 rpm is designed to work with Redhat systems prior to Rev 8. |
| 22 | It is available at http://www.python.org/2.2.2/rpms.html and |
| 23 | http://www.python.org/2.2.1/rpms.html . See the warning/explanation |
| 24 | on the latter web page, which discusses the reason for python2. |
| 25 | |
| Kurt B. Kaiser | f5934dd | 2002-12-31 17:56:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 26 | IDLEfork-0.9xx.tar.gz |
| 27 | This is a distutils sdist (source) tarfile which can be used to make |
| 28 | installations on platforms not supported by the above files. |
| Kurt B. Kaiser | 7e17289 | 2003-01-27 02:40:20 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 29 | ** It remains configured to install as idlelib, not idleforklib. ** |
| Kurt B. Kaiser | f5934dd | 2002-12-31 17:56:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 30 | |
| 31 | Unpack in ..../Tools/, cd to the IDLEfork directory created, and |
| Kurt B. Kaiser | 7e17289 | 2003-01-27 02:40:20 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 32 | <python setup.py install> to install in ....site-packages/idlelib. |
| 33 | This will overwrite the Python IDLE installation. |
| Kurt B. Kaiser | 50e9c4f | 2003-01-01 01:14:13 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 34 | |
| 35 | If you don't want to overwrite Python IDLE, it is also possible to |
| Kurt B. Kaiser | 7e17289 | 2003-01-27 02:40:20 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 36 | simply call <python idle.py> to run from the IDLEfork source directory |
| Kurt B. Kaiser | 50e9c4f | 2003-01-01 01:14:13 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 37 | without making an installation. In this case, IDLE will not be on |
| 38 | your PATH unless you are in the source directory. Also, it is then |
| 39 | advisable to remove any Python IDLE installation by removing |
| 40 | ..../site-packages/idlelib so the two identically named packages don't |
| 41 | conflict. |
| Kurt B. Kaiser | f5934dd | 2002-12-31 17:56:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 42 | |
| 43 | See README.txt for more details on this version of IDLEfork. |
| Steven M. Gava | 88ff736 | 2001-07-21 09:50:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 44 | |
| 45 | |
| Steven M. Gava | 88ff736 | 2001-07-21 09:50:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 46 | |
| Steven M. Gava | 88ff736 | 2001-07-21 09:50:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 47 | |
| Steven M. Gava | 88ff736 | 2001-07-21 09:50:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 48 | |
| Steven M. Gava | 88ff736 | 2001-07-21 09:50:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 49 | |