In message <87zkvbytnk....@web.de>, Diez B. Roggisch wrote: > Of course, in a ideal world, distutils would hook into the distros > dependency system + simply say "please install python-dev first". > > But I'm not convinced that putting the weight here on the shoulders of > the python-communtiy to deal with arbirtray decisions of the dozen or > how many distros + packaging schemes out there is possible - and helpful.
Fair enough. I think the right answer is for the package-management systems to bear the burden of coping with the established installation mechanisms of particular major subsystems. There may be a slight mismatch, in that distutils is source-based, whereas most Linux distros (with the notable exception of Gentoo) expect to distribute and install prebuilt binaries. I suspect this is not insurmountable. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
