Jan Claeys wrote: [...] > Probably the Debian maintainers could have named packages differently to > make things less confusing for newbies (e.g. by having the 'pythonX.Y' > packages being meta-packages that depend on all binary packages built > from the upstream source package), but that doesn't mean splitting > "python" (or other projects) up in several packages is wrong. E.g. when > installing on an flash drive, people are probably quite happy to leave > the 20 MiB of Python documentation out... > Right, who cares about newbies, they're only the future of the language, after all. I take your point that some flexibility is advantageous once you get past the newbie stage, but I think that here we are talking about trying to avoid mis-steps that will potentially put people off making that transition. > > Maybe python.org can include several logical "divisions" in the > python.org distribution and make it easy for OS distro packagers to make > separate packages if they want to, as most of them are quite happy to > have less work to do, provided the upstream "divisions" do more or less > what they want. ;-) (Oh, and such a division should IMHO also include > a "minimal python" for embedded/low-resource hardware use, where things > like distutils, GUI toolkits, a colelction of 20 XML libraries and > documentation are most likely not needed.) > > If only there were some guarantee that the distros would respect any project partitioning imposed by python-deb we might stand a chance of resolving these issues.
By and large they do tend to go their own way, though. I suppose the only alternative is prominently-posted materials on python.org about "Python on Debian", "Python on Ubuntu", ... and various addition to the FAQs. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +44 150 684 7255 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC/Ltd http://www.holdenweb.com Skype: holdenweb http://holdenweb.blogspot.com Recent Ramblings http://del.icio.us/steve.holden _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
