GSOC? On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 6:05 AM, Steven Bethard <steven.beth...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 7:08 AM, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I use Python for systems admin scripts, Windows services, and database > > management. In my experience (and I agree, it's only one, limited, use > > case) availability of download-and-run bdist_wininst installers for > > every package I used was the only significant requirement I had for > > Python package distribution (I remember pre-distutils days, when being > > able to install a 3rd party package on Windows was a nightmare of > > build-it-yourself guesswork). > > > > Since setuptools came on the scene, I can state with some certainty > > that many packages which would otherwise have been distributed as > > bdist_wininst installers, now aren't. In some cases, only source > > packages are provided (on the basis that easy_install will build what > > you need). In those cases, I can accept that maybe the developer would > > not have built Windows installers even before setuptools arrived. But > > in a significant number of cases - including setuptools itself!!!! - > > binary, version-specific eggs for Windows are provided, but no > > bdist_wininst installers. If the developer is willing to build an egg, > > he could just as easily have built an installer - but he now has to > > choose - build one or the other, or both. And not everyone chooses the > > same way. > > I'd just like to chime in and agree with Paul here. I'm a Windows > user, and I won't install a Python module that I can't get as a > wininst (or preferably a .msi), because I prefer to use the Windows > package management system, not some Python specific thing. I can > generally build installers myself for Python-only packages, but binary > ones are harder. And I've seen several projects with exactly the kind > of thing Paul describes - where a good Windows installer would > probably have been available if it weren't for the interference of > setuptools. > > Steve > -- > I'm not *in*-sane. Indeed, I am so far *out* of sane that you appear a > tiny blip on the distant coast of sanity. > --- Bucky Katt, Get Fuzzy > _______________________________________________ > 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/tleeuwenburg%40gmail.com > -- -------------------------------------------------- Tennessee Leeuwenburg http://myownhat.blogspot.com/ "Don't believe everything you think"
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