On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 12:37 PM, Chris Withers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> (I'll be CC'ing the distutils sig in to these replies as this discussion > probably belongs there...) > > Nicolas Chauvat wrote: > >> The slides for my two talks can be found here: >>> >>> http://www.simplistix.co.uk/presentations >>> >> >> "Python Package Management Sucks" >> >> Install debian and get back to productive tasks. > > haha. :) I just wanted to react on that: I have created a setuptools-enabled package for Pylint (logilab.pylintinstaller, see http://pypi.python.org/pypi/logilab.pylintinstaller) with the bless of Logilab, so people under Windows could use the tool with a one-liner installation process... So if you like Pylint and Python but you don't use Debian you can use that. > >> > This is an almost troll-like answer. > See page 35 of the presentation. > > If you're too lazy, here's a re-hash: > > - there are lots of different operating systems > > - even with Linux, there are many different package management systems > > - all the package management systems behave differently and expect packages > to be set up differently for them > > - expecting package developers to shoulder this burden is unfair and > results in various bitrotting repackaged versions of python packages rather > than just one up-to-date version maintained by the entity originating the > python package > > - Adobe Photoshop Plugins, Firefox Add-ons, etc do not delegate their > management to an OS package manager. Packages are Python's "plugins" and so > should get the same type of consistent, cross-platform package management > targetted at the application in question, which is Python in this case. > > cheers, > > Chris > > -- > Simplistix - Content Management, Zope & Python Consulting > - http://www.simplistix.co.uk > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig > -- Tarek Ziadé | Association AfPy | www.afpy.org Blog FR | http://programmation-python.org Blog EN | http://tarekziade.wordpress.com/
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