> Are the Linux users happy with having a Python > package manager that ignores RPM/apt? Why > should Windows users be any happier?
Because, as you noted, the add/remove programs application is severely limited. > I've read one too many "Windows is so broken > that people who use it obviously don't care about > doing things right" postings this week I'm honestly not sure that such fine-grained control is the right user interface, particularly for a non-shared system. But even if it were, Windows doesn't really have it, and it isn't so valuable that a solution which works only for python could do much better than the existing 3rd-party setup tools. As a windows user, I don't want python packages showing up in the add/remove programs list, because it won't help me, and will make the few times I do use that tool even more awkward. That said, I agree that if python does package management, offering windows users the choice of using that application is probably a good idea. The catch is that "package managers" seem to offer far more fine-grained power (even without dependency resolution) than windows. Duplicating this would add lots of complexity just for windows -- and still might not be all that useful. I'm already used to looking for an uninstall.exe in the directory of anything I can actually uninstall, and accepting that most things just don't go away cleanly. As a programmer, this feels wrong, but ... it is probably a good tradeoff for the time I don't want to spend maintaining things. If I really wanted a fancy tool that took care of dependencies and alternate versions, I would be willing to run something python-specific, or to treat each package as a subcomponent that I managed through "Change an existing program" applied to python. But realistically, I don't see such a tool being used often enough to justify inclusion in the core. -jJ _______________________________________________ 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
