On Sat, 25 Jul 2009 11:25:27 +1000, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> > You omit the important part: adding a new thing to Python *so long as it > doesn't depend on anything outside Python*.
I'm signing out on this silly discussion for now.... Any python program is dependant on things "outside" python. For example an operating system.. a computer... and a user perhaps for without such it wouldn't be possible to generate the all important 1Di0t errors that we so often have to deal with. >> The Python Package Manager can be written to work in console mode. > > I think this would be best. Haha - I'm glad somebody took this seriously... It was a sort of a joke comment but it's a serious possibility. > The functionality you often discuss around > this tool would be best implemented independently of any UI. It is anyway. That's why doing an entirely different UI isn't any major issue. I have a class and a possible command line interface behind the scenes. > It would, in fact, be best to work with the team performing ongoing > active standardisation of distutils functionality. I am already doing that. But there is a bias against windows development and a bias against native applications. That's fine because I know they are using python on different platforms. I'm working on a proposal to make setup.py object oriented and "modern". http://wiki.python.org/moin/Distutils/Proposals So I'm doing as much as I can - really. David _______________________________________________ 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
