2009/11/5 Sridhar Ratnakumar <sridh...@activestate.com>: > 1. Not having to deal build errors (due to missing libs or corrupt lib > installations)
Then you need to compile the libs statically, and then you open up another can of worms with incompatibilities there. > 2. Not having to have a compiler suite installed (VS, xcode) If you install a python library, you have those installed. (Except on Windows). > 3. Installing binaries take less time than for source (which you have to > compile) Which is only relevant of you have massive amounts of C-code. Even big projects take 15 seconds instead if 3 seconds. Hardly a big problem. > 4. Support for binary repositories (eg: pypm.activestate.com) where you can > put custom builds (eg: launchpad repos) This I don't understand. > Point (1) and (2) are very important for Windows. Yes. Which is why I explicitly said that you shouldn't distribute binaries, except for Windows. -- Lennart Regebro: Python, Zope, Plone, Grok http://regebro.wordpress.com/ +33 661 58 14 64 _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
