On Sunday, May 10, 2020 at 8:37:17 AM UTC-7, Till Maas wrote: > > ...which I guess could be removed and users should > be asked to install it from their distribution or via pip.... >
Not naysaying, but every time we ask a user to read and think and do something based on their particular os, there 'will' be 'many' people who don't do so. Some people won't even try, expecting everything to magically work for them with no thinking require. Some will try but be unable to understand the instructions, as they're not Linuxy people. Some will try and fail because they're on odd operating systems that require special instructions. There are many edge cases too.... A good example is trying to do a dpkg or rpm that requires python3-cheetah when your distro does not 'have' such a package. If you install cheetah with pip as a second way to get it onto the system, if your package isn't smart enough to support that, a package installation will fail and you would have to use a --force or a --ignore-dependencies (or the like) switch to force the package to install. Those options cause risk too, and a non-linux person won't understand the risks nor how to deal with adventures if they pop up. Packaging is hard. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-development" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-development/4c51574f-3e8e-466d-8f7c-16d9ac04e2ab%40googlegroups.com.
