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On Wed, 03 Apr 2013 12:41:25 -0700
John Nagle <nagle@animats.com> wrote:

> I'm struggling with radio hams who are trying to get my
> antique Teletype program running.  I hate having to write
> instructions like this:

Can you package it and make it available via pip?
I only know linux so maybe pip doesn't run on windows??

If you packaged via pip then they would only have to do:

pip install antique-teletype


> 
>   Installation instructions (Windows):
> 
>   Download and install Python 2.7 (32-bit) if not already installed.
>   (Python 2.6 or 2.7 is required; "pyserial" will not work correctly
> on older versions, and "feedparser" is not supported in 3.x versions.)
> 
>   Install the Python module "setuptools" from the Python Package
> Index. (Needed by other installers. Has a Windows installer.)
> 
>   Install the Python module "feedparser" from Google Code.
>   (Unpack ZiP  file, run "setup.py install")
> 
>   Install the Python module "pyserial" from SourceForge.
>   (Windows installer, but 32-bit only)
> 
>   Install the Python module "pygooglevoice" from Google Code.
>   (Requires 7Zip to unpack the .tar.gz file. Then "setup.py install")
> 
>   Download "BaudotRSS" from SourceForge. (ZIP file, put in your
>   chosen directory for this program.)
> 
>   Run: python baudotrss.py --help
> 
> I'm thinking of switching to Go.
> 
> 			John Nagle


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