On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 11:05 AM, Lawrence Oluyede <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > The problem with C libraries is a lot bigger than just Google. It > > frustrates users on Windows and Macintosh to no end, and many of them > > give up trying to install Pylons/lxml/ToscaWidgets/wxPython and go on > > to something else. Precompiled binaries don't always exist, are too > > old, hard to find, or built with the wrong C compiler or Unicode > > width. > > This is, in my ideal world, a Windows problem, not a Python one. For > the record: I use Linux and MacOSX day by day and never had issues > with C libraries. I already know Windows is an entire different > matter. For this and a lot of other reasons I don't use Windows at > all, unless to test HTML pages with IE 6/7. > > BTW even if the developer likes Windows as his platform most of the > deployment in the Python world is done on unix machine, at least in my > side of the universe. I am not sure someone will go with (for example) > (Django|Pylons|TG) + Apache2 + PostgreSQL on a Windows box as the > server. It's not a question of wanting to use Windows. Sometimes companies require you to use Windows, or a mandate comes down from two levels above your department. And even if you're using Linux (as I am and our server is), you may want to offload some of the development to colleagues who are on Windows or Mac. You can't expect them to install/learn Linux just for one task. As for Mac problems, the final straw for lxml was when Ben tried to install it on his Mac at PyCon. The error messages were beautiful, but they did not help in porting WebHelpers to lxml. -- Mike Orr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pylons-discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
