Brian van den Broek wrote: > That suggests implementing the custom installation work in Python, and > having a bash script that will > > 1) determine if there is an existing Python install, > 2) if there is not, install Python in the standard way, > 3) using the now guaranteed to be there installation of Python, run > your Python script that does all of your custom installation, and > 4) if step (2) added a Python installation other than the one added by > step (3), perhaps remove it.
Allow me to second that advice and also point out some work that should make step 3 easier in the, hopefully near, future: http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/EasyInstall -- Robert Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] "In the fields of hell where the grass grows high Are the graves of dreams allowed to die." -- Richard Harter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list