Quoting "Branko Vukelić" <[email protected]>:
If you insist on a package manager, you can use easy_install or pip, which will always have access to a much wider range of Python libraries than apt-get, and will always have access to latest-and-greatest code (not counting development versions, of course). These will install packages system-wide, just like apt, but advantages are obvious.
I must confess, that I never used easy_install nor pip, so my opion might be based purely on ignorance. The point (to me) in using Debians (or any other Linux distributions) package manager is the integration into the system. E.g. package dependencies, reverse dependencies, package conflicts etc. are solved beyond Python, including native libraries and tools. The world (unfortunately) is not Python-only. Furthermore, for a certain release of the distribution, it can be exptected, the the different packages work together. For a stable release I can expect security updates, i.e. no other changes go into newer package versions. For all bugs I like to report, I can use the same bug tracker (in case of Debian bugs.debian.org) etc. At least for production systems, I would not recommend to rely on any other means of installation than the system package manager, if possible. Cheers -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web.py" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/webpy?hl=en.
