On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 11:24 AM, Cliff Wells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 08:50 -0700, Mike Orr 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. > > > > I think this is less true that it used to be. Microsoft now makes a > free version of Visual Studio available which is sufficient to compile > Python extensions on Windows: > > http://www.microsoft.com/express/download/
But is every Pylons user willing to/smart enough to/allowed to install and run the compiler? More to the point, it's pretty far from what they wanted to do in the first place, which is to write a web application.If Pylons doesn't do it conveniently, they'll go to something else. Arguing whether it's Microsoft's fault or not doesn't change the situation. One can say we don't care about those users, but I don't think Pylons wants to do that. -- 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
