>>> Oh, and application installation is (should be) completely different. >> > On Windows, applications should probably be bundled with their own >> > Python interpreter, a la py2exe. On Unix/Linux, I don't know what the >> > standard is, so I'd have to defer to others. >> >> >> This I disagree with. I think it's an overall bad thing to have all >> kinds of applications ship their own copy of Python; see also Aza >> Raskin's PyCon keynote. > > Is this on Windows? It's fairly common practice.
Unfortunately so, yes. This can be viewed a burden to the adoption of Python: for a small application, you get this huge download to bundle. > Can you give me a > pointer to Aza Raskin's keynote? Is it online anywhere? I'd be > interested in his point of view. Unfortunately no. I was looking for it, but couldn't find it. He mentioned a website with a "call for action", but I couldn't find that, either :-( Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
