On Thu, 24 Oct 2013, Jed Brown wrote: > Satish Balay <[email protected]> writes: > > > yeah its a 'apt-get install python2'. Similar thing with future fedora > > releases. > > So long as you are root and don't mind enabling the repository. > > http://askubuntu.com/questions/148638/how-do-i-enable-the-universe-repository > > > with such isses python creates - no wonder considerable number of > > tools still use /bin/sh > > > > [one doesn't have to change scripts every 10 years so that the correct sh > > is found] > > And trade language "stability" for inconsistent semantics between > implementations, especially in the utilities that must be called to do > anything. > > I think Python is not bad for this stuff. It's too large to bundle by > default. Note that we can readily support --download-python if at some > point, we decide to upgrade, but want to support some fraction of users > on antique machines.
last I checked - building python is not that easy - esp if the system is missing packages like -lz or ssl or other stuff that some of the modules depend on. Satish
