I wrote this 5 years ago, and its largely still true as far as I can tell of the surrounding systems. Snappy-core for instance, isn't targeting MacOS X or Windows (last I checked anyhow ...)
https://rbtcollins.wordpress.com/2012/08/27/why-platform-specific-package-systems-exist-and-wont-go-away/ -Rob On 7 April 2017 at 02:32, Thomas Güttler <guettl...@thomas-guettler.de> wrote: > Dear Nick and other distutils listeners, > > Nick wrote this about seven months ago: > > http://www.curiousefficiency.org/posts/2016/09/python-packaging-ecosystem.html > > I love Python and I use it daily. > > On the other hand there are other interesting programming languages out > there. > > Why not do "thinking in sets" here and see python just as one item in the > list of a languages? > > Let's dream: All languages should be supported in the ever best packaging > solution of the future. > > What do you think? > > Regards, > Thomas > > > > -- > Thomas Guettler http://www.thomas-guettler.de/ > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
