On 9-feb-2006, at 16:34, has wrote:
As has been said elsewhere, if the aim is to market Python to a broad audience then it's at least as much an exercise in influencing perceptions as technical merit. And often folk just don't like to be presented with a long list of things to download and install before they're able to do anything. e.g. Back before Nick stepped in with his all-in-one installer, some folks fair moaned about having to install a half-dozen simple distutils packages in order to use appscript. Even though the latter approach only took an extra minute or two in practice, in the end it was simpler and much more effective to cater to their "unreasonable" demands than lecture them on why "they" were "wrong".
Totally off-topic, but if you'd move to setuptools you can keep several separate packages, but users could install using 'easy_install appscript' which would then take care of the dependencies for you.
Ronald
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