Stephen Hansen writes: > > > > > > IMHO, the main system without a package manager is Windows. > > > > > > AFAICT the MacOS platform also lacks in this area. > > > > Actually, they both have them. Windows has Cygwin (rpm-based), while > > for MacOS Fink (deb-based), MacPorts (FreeBSD ports-like), and > > NetBSD's pkgsrc are all viable options if you want packaging support > > for 3rd-party packages. > > Er, excuse me for cutting in but-- that's just not at all the same > thing.
[...] > I do think its valuable to do so in a way that will integrate with native > package managers on those operating systems that they are a native and > integrated part of Why restrict it to those? That's my point. If you're going to make it apt-compatible, you should do all the others, too, because there are lots of people using them. Whether or not they are OS-provided. As far as I'm concerned, asking a Python tool to integrate into any pms is a non-starter because it really means asking for integration into all of them. > but to say, "Let's not re-create apt!" is a sorrowful stance. It's > saying, "Screw Windows, because it isn't as good as what we have." > and "Screw Mac, because its not as good as we have." It's worse than that. One point I hoped to make is that "Let's not recreate apt!" is a way of saying "Screw Windows and Mac and Red Hat and Gentoo and NetBSD and FreeBSD and ...." I think it's worth working out a standard format for documenting dependencies so that a downstream distributor can easily create a dependency graph (perhaps several of them, since system bootstrap, package build-time, and package run-time may have different requirements). And standard Python distribution media should have a "manual mode" so that distros can decide where to put things. But that's as far as Python itself should ever go; fitting those things into any given pms is the downstream distro's job. _______________________________________________ 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
