On 13 November 2017 at 20:43, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > On Mon, 13 Nov 2017 11:17:54 +0100 > Petr Viktorin <encu...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > Wow. I had forgotten Debian could be such a user-hostile >> > distribution. I'm not sure what the reason would be to use it as a >> > basis for a training course in Python programming, then (other than the >> > teacher having their own ideological preferences). >> >> For us, it's the *student's* preference. I believe it's better to let >> students use the machine and environment they're used to, even if it >> means extra trouble for the instructors. >> So, we get a healthy mix of Windows, Mac, Debian, Fedora, and sometimes >> some surprises. > > In that case the student must be ready to deal with the perils of their > own preferences.
It's also currently missing from https://packaging.python.org/guides/installing-using-linux-tools/, but we can amend that now that we know what the required fix is. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
