On Friday 05 January 2007 18:51, Talin wrote: > Just curious, how much pain would it cause you if these were > CheeseShop packages instead of built-in?
Considerable for the open-source stuff. Windows users, in particular, have great difficulty with downloading extensions. If they also have to build it from source, it's exponentially worse. That's one thing worth noting - if we are proposing to push any C-code packages off to the cheeseshop, we need to make sure we make available the binary packages for Windows users, and keep doing it when there's a new major release, at least if the package has any use at all. Right now, I don't even know that it's possible to build a binary extension without spending money - it needs a version of the MS compiler that's no longer available. Last I looked, there wasn't a free solution that worked (hopefully that's changed now). In any case, telling people "now you'll need to download a couple of hundred megabytes of compiler" doesn't strike me as a path to happiness. -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood. _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
