On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 2:56 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull <step...@xemacs.org>wrote:
> But since he's arguing the > other end in the directory layout thread (where he says there are many > special ways to invoke Python so that having different layouts on > different platforms is easy to work around), I can't give much weight > to his preference here. > You're misconstruing my argument there: I said, rather, that the One Obvious Way to deploy a Python application is to dump everything in one directory, as that is the one way that Python has supported for at least 15 years now. Calling this a "special" way of invoking Python is disingenuous at best: it's the documented *default* way of deploying and invoking a Python script with accompanying libraries. In contrast, the directory layout thread is about supporting virtualenvs, which aren't even *in* Python yet -- if anything is to be considered a special case, that would be it. The comparison to CSS is also lost on me here; creating user-specific CSS is more aptly comparable telling people to write their own virtualenv implementations from scratch, and resizing the browser window is more akin to telling people to create a virtualenv every time they *run* the application, rather than just once when installing it.
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