At 8:42 PM +0100 12/2/06, Martin v. Löwis wrote: >Jan Claeys schrieb: >> Like I said, it's possible to split Python without making things >> complicated for newbies. > >You may have that said, but I don't believe its truth. For example, >most distributions won't include Tkinter in the "standard" Python >installation: Tkinter depends on _tkinter depends on Tk depends on >X11 client libraries. Since distributors want to make X11 client >libraries optional, they exclude Tkinter. So people wonder why >they can't run Tkinter applications (search comp.lang.python for >proof that people wonder about precisely that). > >I don't think the current packaging tools can solve this newbie >problem. It might be solvable if installation of X11 libraries >would imply installation of Tcl, Tk, and Tkinter: people running >X (i.e. most desktop users) would see Tkinter installed, yet >it would be possible to omit Tkinter.
Given the current packaging tools, could Python have stub modules for such things that would just throw a useful exception giving the name of the required package? Perhaps if Python just had an example of such a stub (and Tkinter comes to mind), packagers would customize it and make any others they needed? -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' The Great Writ <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ' is no more. <http://www.georgeanelson.com/> _______________________________________________ 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
