On approximately 10/21/2009 7:13 PM, came the following characters from
the keyboard of David Lyon:
On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:38:26 -0700, Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote:
We make a language here. Distutils exists as a bootstrap
mechanism for the package story and for our own building needs of the
stdlib.
Maybe what David is missing is that since python-dev is uninterested in
the package management issue, the only remaining way to include package
management in a convenient, single installation, is to
1) Create the package management tool
2) Create a bundled installer that will install both Python, the package
management tool, and any dependencies of the package management tool
3) Advertise the availability of the bundle, and its usefulness*
4) See how many users try it out, and as new versions of Python are
created, how many users keep coming back, in preference to the package
management tool free python.org distribution.
*There does seem to be precedent for mentioning/linking to other
distributions of Python from http://www.python.org/download/ so that
would surely be an avenue that is open to David, although I have no idea
what criteria must be met to obtain a listing on that page.
--
Glenn -- http://nevcal.com/
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