Am 08.11.2009 um 00:18 schrieb Kevin Teague:
One other really nice thing about the Perl packaging ecosystem is
that their standard library is packaged!
If there is a bug found in the Perl standard library, it's trivial
to upgrade it to a newer release with a bug fix. For example, the
recent little distutils snafu would have been a lot less painful for
the end user's if we'd been able to get the bug fix with a simple:
$ pip install --upgrade distutils
In this respect, from an end user perspective, it really feels like
you're getting hit with a stick, "Need that distutils fix? Hmm,
well, OK, but you're going to have wait another month until we do a
full Python release, and then accept all these other unrelated
changes if you want that ... "
CPAN even informs you if there's a newer release of itself
available, and suggests you might like to upgrade:
There's a new CPAN.pm version (v1.9402) available!
[Current version is v1.7602]
You might want to try
install Bundle::CPAN
reload cpan
without quitting the current session. It should be a seamless upgrade
while we are running...
Buildout has a similar upgrade notification feature, but I don't
think pip or easy_install does? One nice thing about setuptools (or
now distribute) not having been merged into the standard library is
that they're easy to update to newer releases. As we push more of
this code down into Distutils, we are making it more difficult to
get updates :(
Oh, intriguing idea, has moving distutils out of Python core been
considered before?
Jannis
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