On 2011-08-22 14:13 +0200, W. Martin Borgert wrote: > 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
That's what I used to think about pyton-* packages until I've learned about pip and virtualenv. Now, whenever I do python development, I only use pip and virtualenv. The only python-* packages are I have are Python itself, and distutils (easy_install, which I use to install virtualenv and pip). I invite you to try and master those tools, and see the advantages for yourself. > 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. Oh ok. I have so many objections to the statement above, but I'll just STFU so that this doesn't get out of hand. :) -- Branko Vukelic [email protected] [email protected] Lead Developer Herd Hound (tm) - Travel that doesn't bite www.herdhound.com Love coffee? You might love Loveffee, too. loveffee.appspot.com -- 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.
