On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 6:20 PM, Adam Tauno Williams <awill...@whitemice.org> wrote: > On Tue, 2010-06-08 at 18:12 -0700, geremy condra wrote: >> > * IronPython relies on the .Net environment for everything >> Since .Net (effectively) depends on Windows, > > 100% False; not "effectively" true at all. I run [and develop] .NET > applications on LINUX every day. IL and the CLR are standards.
Fine, then they can ship it with Linux too, just for you. My point stands. >> > I don't see why that first one is so much worse than the others. Sure, it >> > adds an extra dependency to installing Python for GUI programming, but >> > that's no different to any other GUI toolkit: PyQt has Qt as a >> > dependency, PyGtk has Gtk as a dependency, etc. (I trust you're not >> > suggesting that every language needs to create its own fully-independent >> > GUI toolkit that talks directly to the hardware!) >> But we don't have any of those in the standard library. > > I just don't see why this is an issue? Every, or pretty darn close, > significant Python application depends on 3rd party > modules/component/libraries. What does that have to do with the python itself? Geremy Condra -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
