-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Jan 7, 2008, at 9:41 AM, Paul Moore wrote:
> If there were two officially distributed versions of Python, > python-std (basically what we have now) and a python-lite without the > full stdlib, then I could probably live with the situation (but the > big version needs to be flagged as "standard", or the sysadmins will > insist on the other one...) But I'd still prefer the current > situation. I see no reason why this can't be so. > BTW, I'm only really concerned with Windows installers here. The > situation on Unix tends not to be as bad for us (but mainly because > the standard tools are good enough that we get by with them so the > lack of Python isn't worth fighting over :-(). > > And yes, my experience really has been that bad :-( Our Windows installers already include more than the current "standard" Python, so I see no reason why we couldn't package and bless a sumo-Windows installer. I suspect it will never be necessary for Linux because distros will probably provide all the necessary packaging. There may be other OS's where a sumo distribution is needed, but our release process could account for that. - -Barry -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) iQCVAwUBR4I8yXEjvBPtnXfVAQJDJwP/RtTksLY6IrCGqlPLgJ/rrFYebMGwbc5Q Y6vILQ9PTnxniRZuL8PntX8C/ZZgIwW6Zg7NTtUkOplrM23gJ4jm2jO8+CuFe8hE AuOTf6Jk6ZMtG+fWq2+kCGpUT1Zg6evnuhj1Ji01FquqQPVvlpie7g+BS/Y6BJ1j 1OWCmqudAu8= =sTP3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
