I wrote this 5 years ago, and its largely still true as far as I can tell of the surrounding systems. Snappy-core for instance, isn't targeting MacOS X or Windows (last I checked anyhow ...) https://rbtcollins.wordpress.com/2012/08/27/why-platform-specific-package-sy... -Rob On 7 April 2017 at 02:32, Thomas Güttler <guettliml@thomas-guettler.de> wrote:
Dear Nick and other distutils listeners,
Nick wrote this about seven months ago:
http://www.curiousefficiency.org/posts/2016/09/python-packaging-ecosystem.ht...
I love Python and I use it daily.
On the other hand there are other interesting programming languages out there.
Why not do "thinking in sets" here and see python just as one item in the list of a languages?
Let's dream: All languages should be supported in the ever best packaging solution of the future.
What do you think?
Regards, Thomas
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