----- Original Nachricht ---- Von: Merlijn van Deen <[email protected]> An: Pywikipedia discussion list <[email protected]> Datum: 11.09.2013 20:11 Betreff: Re: [Pywikipedia-l] BS and externals (again ;)
> On 11 September 2013 19:17, Dr. Trigon <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Just a thought about that; might it be possible that we have a > > philosophy mismatch between win (xqt, ...) and linux (me, ...) users? > > Might it be possible that win users want to have "everything" included > > whereas linux useres are used to have independent packages with > > dependencies between them? > > > If this is the problem, what about having averything included e.g. in > > the nightly release? I do have no idea about how nightly works and > > whether this is already the case? This release would then be >100MB but > > as used from python "with batteries included". > > > > No. It's a mismatch between 'have everything needed for basic functionality > in one package' versus 'it's OK if something has to be downloaded later'. > Your packaging system is very useful for packages that are only needed for > a few scripts, but I really don't understand why you so desperately want > BeautifulSoup to *not* be included by default. It's needed for basic usage > of bots and it's only 80KB (compared to almost 20M for the rest of the > framework). > > Merlijn > > +1 This is exactly my opinion. xqt _______________________________________________ Pywikipedia-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/pywikipedia-l
