-On [20090329 19:21], Jeffrey Yasskin (jyass...@gmail.com) wrote: >However, Brett Cannon and I talked, and we think this is surmountable. >First, nearly every desktop system comes with a Python interpreter, which >would avoid the bootstrap for ordinary development.
This is quite a major assumption. Most FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD users tend to install a minimal binary OS (kernel plus system tools) and then proceed to install third party applications via either ports or pkgsrc. This means that Python gets built from scratch. So depending on Python to build Python seems a bad decision if you care for my opinion. -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai(-at-)in-nomine.org> / asmodai イェルーン ラウフロック ヴァン デル ウェルヴェン http://www.in-nomine.org/ | http://www.rangaku.org/ | GPG: 2EAC625B I must be cruel, only to be kind... _______________________________________________ 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
