On Sun, 26 Jul 2009 17:23:59 +0100, Michael Foord <fuzzy...@voidspace.org.uk> wrote: > It would be great to have a decent visual package manager for Python.
Hopefully one day we'll have one - haha > It needs to be built on top of the work that Tarek is doing with > distutils (and be compatible with his Distribute fork of setuptools) and > it also needs to be established. I'm planning to support it - like I do for setuptools and pip > The good news is that there is time for both... Aren't there other tools > that have similar goals? PyPI browser, Yolk etc The fact is that there's way more glamorous things to work on than a package manager. Nobody has written a package manager for python imho simply because there's so many more fun things to do with python than that... > It is a shame that it needs to be built on Tk if it is to stand a chance > of ever being included in the standard library - but with the right > expertise it is *possible* to create decent looking UIs with Tk. I'm working on a TK version.. yes.. a TK version is better than nothing and the differences between a TK and a WX version is really only pretty minor. To me, wx is ancient... and tk is simply prehistoric. mr.new-to-python developer wouldn't really cares too much either I would suspect. All they want is to be up and running quickly. My only point is that Windows ain't no embedded system. It's not short on memory or disk space. If a package manager is 5 megabytes extra say, with it's libraries.. what's the extra download time on that ? compared to three days+ stuffing around trying to find out how to install packages for a new user. If the source needs to go in too.. that's a few kilobytes. That's like 57 extra bytes to an old-timer... I know.. it's such a sacrifice.. and we're all working on 300 baud... :-) 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
