<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Jason Baker <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:amnorvend@gmail.com">amnorvend@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Carl Karsten <<a href="mailto:carl@personnelware.com">carl@personnelware.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> A few years ago, a Ubutnu dev said: "Ubuntu is committed to providing<br>
> a complete Python development environment out of the box. It's a<br>
> conscious decision, made without pretense of language neutrality." (I<br>
> can probably dig up the name if anyone cares.)<br>
><br>
> I am not denying it, and if you poke around there is evidence of it,<br>
> but maybe it would be good for both Ubuntu and Python if that was<br>
> advertised?<br>
<br>
</div>I'm a little bit skeptical about "advertising" it, at least directly.<br>
We don't want Python to be cubby-holed as a Linux language (or a<br>
Windows language, or an OS X language). That said, I do think that we<br>
can take advantage of this if we play our cards right. I think the<br>
best way to handle this is to think of more ways to push Ubuntu users<br>
to ask themselves "I already have a great development environment set<br>
up and I can do all kinds of cool stuff, why not give Python a shot?"<br>
<br>
Perhaps what we need is some more quick guides to making neat stuff<br>
under ubuntu.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I think that's a fantastic idea. "5 cool things you can do with Python on Ubuntu" for example... +1!</div></div>